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With No Cure in Sight, CRISPR Could Offer Hope for Lou Gehrig’s … – Gizmodo

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2017-12-20 NEWS

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With No Cure in Sight, CRISPR Could Offer Hope for Lou Gehrig’s …
Gizmodo
Genetic engineering offers the promise of treating genetic disorders by correcting disease-causing DNA, but when the defective genes are located in cells deep inside the body, how do you actually deliver a cure?
ALS Research Forum | CRISPR – In The Nick of Time For ALS?ALS Research Forum
In vivo genome editing improves motor function and extends survival …Science Advances

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Who Should Decide If Gene Therapy Is Too Risky, Patients or the FDA?
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But the US Food and Drug Administration and many other international regulatory bodies have been slow to approve human trials due to the high risks associated with tinkering with a patient’s DNA. Liz Parrish thinks that the FDA and the medical

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Scientists use CRISPR to mitigate hearing loss in ‘Beethoven mice’
Orlando Sentinel
To keep this from happening, the authors set out to use the CRISPR gene editing system to bind to and cut the faulty TMC1 gene, allowing the good copy to become dominant. Xue Gao, a post-doctoral researcher in Liu’s lab and the first author on the

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2017-12-20 NEWS

Scientists use CRISPR to mitigate hearing loss in ‘Beethoven mice’
Orlando Sentinel
To keep this from happening, the authors set out to use the CRISPR gene editing system to bind to and cut the faulty TMC1 gene, allowing the good copy to become dominant. Xue Gao, a post-doctoral researcher in Liu’s lab and the first author on the