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Cancer survivor ‘friends for life’ with stem cell donor after two year search for ‘lifesaver’ – Evening Standard

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2017-10-25 NEWS

Evening Standard

Cancer survivor ‘friends for life’ with stem cell donor after two year search for ‘lifesaver’
Evening Standard
Nicky Turkoz, 52, a carer and mother of two, had to wait two years under transplant rules before she could find out the identity of the stranger who donated their stem cells. She finally met 49-year-old Annette Hamson a few weeks ago. Both arrived with

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Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology
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The technology is called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, or CRISPR. It’s a technique that Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal genetics professor at University of California, Davis, says can de-activate a gene. Or, as she puts it

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Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology
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Dozens of crops and livestock developed with CRISPR technology are years from the market, though the U.S. Department of Agriculture already said it won’t regulate CRISPR-developed products like other genetically engineered food, since no foreign …

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Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology
NPR
Dozens of crops and livestock developed with CRISPR technology are years from the market, though the U.S. Department of Agriculture already said it won’t regulate CRISPR-developed products like other genetically engineered food, since no foreign …

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