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CRISPR gene-editing tool targets cancer’s “command center” – Gizmag – New Atlas

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2017-05-02 NEWS

New Atlas

CRISPR gene-editing tool targets cancer’s “command center” – Gizmag
New Atlas
The CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system could help fight cancer, and now, researchers have used the tool to target what they call cancer’s command center, …
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2017-05-02 NEWS

CRISPR gene-editing tool targets cancer’s “command center”
New Atlas
The CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system can do some pretty amazing things, giving us new ways to fight muscular dystrophy, blindness, and even HIV. But at the top of its hit list is cancer, and now researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have used

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2017-05-01 NEWS

Slate Magazine

Can Synthetic Biology Finally Cure Diabetes?
Slate Magazine
More recently, though, the field of synthetic biology—a hybrid discipline that aims to construct or redesign biological components and systems—has shown the potential to produce a novel set of treatments. The solutions remain speculative, but they do