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China sides with Berkeley on CRISPR patent – BioNews

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2017-07-03 NEWS

China sides with Berkeley on CRISPR patent
BioNews
China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has granted the University of California a patent on CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology in the country. The SIPO patent granted to University of California Berkeley, University of Vienna and

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2017-07-03 NEWS

Safety matters – can we be sure that CRISPR-Cas9 is not producing unwanted genetic alterations?
BioNews
Recent debate over the safety of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing following a study that suggested it can cause hundreds of unexpected mutations left me puzzled. The research (see BioNews 903), published in Nature Methods and carried out in three living …

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2017-07-03 NEWS

Could CRISPR Sniff Out Viruses?
Live Science
But genomic tools like CRISPR also have other possible capabilities, such as the ability to screen people for the presence of viruses, like dengue and Zika, as well as debilitating diseases like Parkinson’s. “I think the public perception of CRISPR is

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2017-07-03 NEWS

Could CRISPR Sniff Out Viruses?
Live Science
But genomic tools like CRISPR also have other possible capabilities, such as the ability to screen people for the presence of viruses, like dengue and Zika, as well as debilitating diseases like Parkinson’s. “I think the public perception of CRISPR is

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2017-07-03 NEWS

The Daily Reckoning

CRISPR ‘it Has Incredible Potential To Improve Our World
The Daily Reckoning
As I described last week Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley is credited with the discovery of CRISPR, the technique that has made gene editing considerably faster, cheaper, more accurate and accessible, and today I want to tell you a little more about her

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2017-07-03 NEWS

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Leukaemia survivor becomes stem cell donor’s best man
BBC News
A stem cell donor asked the stranger whose life he saved to be the best man at his wedding. Brett Dingwall survived life-threatening acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) after he was treated with Paul Rogers’s donated cells 10 years ago. The pair met up after

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2017-07-03 NEWS

BBC News

Leukaemia survivor becomes stem cell donor’s best man
BBC News
A stem cell donor asked the stranger whose life he saved to be the best man at his wedding. Brett Dingwall survived life-threatening acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) after he was treated with Paul Rogers’s donated cells 10 years ago. The pair met up after

and more »

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2017-07-03 NEWS

BBC News

Leukaemia survivor becomes stem cell donor’s best man
BBC News
A stem cell donor asked the stranger whose life he saved to be the best man at his wedding. Brett Dingwall survived life-threatening acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) after he was treated with Paul Rogers’s donated cells 10 years ago. The pair met up after

and more »