Scientists Used CRISPR to Put a GIF Inside Living DNA – MIT Technology Review
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Scientists Used CRISPR to Put a GIF Inside Living DNA
MIT Technology Review They’ve used the gene-editing system CRISPR to insert a short animated image, or GIF, into the genomes of living Escherichia coli bacteria. The researchers converted the individual pixels of each image into nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. Scientists Can Use CRISPR to Store Images and Movies in BacteriaThe Atlantic Scientists Upload a Galloping Horse GIF Into Bacteria With CrisprWIRED Taking cells out to the movies with new CRISPR technologyPhys.Org Nature.com –STAT all 14 news articles » |
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Compound Called MITO-PIP May Have Potential as Gene Therapy for Mitochondrial Diseases
Mitochondrial Disease News A compound that can silence a gene in a very specific manner was adapted by researchers to be used inside mitochondria — opening the possibility of manipulating genes linked to mitochondrial diseases. MITO-PIP, as the scientists call the compound … |
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FDA cancer advisers OK ‘major advance’ — individualized cancer therapy
Chicago Sun-Times Called CAR–T, it involves removing immune cells from a patient’s blood, genetically altering them — in effect, reprogramming them to create an army of cells that can zero in on and destroy cancer cells — and then injecting them back into the patient … |
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Breathing in a New Gene Therapy to Treat Pulmonary Hypertension
Newswise (press release) Newswise — (New York, NY— July 12, 2017) Mount Sinai has partnered with Theragene Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to advance a novel airway-delivered gene therapy for treating pulmonary hypertension (PH), a form of high blood pressure in blood vessels in the … |
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FDA advisers review data on potential 1st US gene therapy
Minneapolis Star Tribune The therapy could be the first of a wave of cancer treatments custom-made to target a patient’s cancer. Called CAR-T, it involves removing immune cells from a patients’ blood, reprogramming them to create an army of attack cells and putting them back … |