DuPont Pioneer and CasZyme Collaborating to Advance New CRISPR-Cas Gene-Editing ToolsPR Web (press release)DuPont Pioneer and recently formed CasZyme, a startup company based in Vilnius, Lithuania, announced today that they have entered into a multiyea… Continue reading
Fast CompanyAsking After The Future At The World Frontiers ForumFast CompanyJames Collins, researcher, Wyss Institute, pioneer in synthetic biology (created inexpensive rapid-response diagnostics for Ebola and Zika). “We and others have now engineered … Continue reading
New, hyper-accurate CRISPR gene editor developedGenetic Literacy ProjectScientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts General Hospital have identified a key region within the Cas9 protein that governs how accurately CRISPR-Cas… Continue reading
PLoS Blogs (blog) |
As Blindness Gene Therapy Nears FDA Finish Line, A Shout-Out to Activist Families
PLoS Blogs (blog) Today I’m glued to my laptop, watching and listening to physicians, researchers, family members, and patients present their cases for FDA approval of Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec), the gene therapy that Corey, now a high school senior, received. He … |
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Sweden won’t prosecute Italian stem cell scientist
ABC News FILE – In this Friday, July 30, 2010 file photo, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini talks to journalists during a press conference, in Florence, Italy. Swedish prosecutors told a news conference Thursday Oct. 12, 2017, the investigation against a disgraced stem … |
Independent Online |
Stem cell boost in hopes of preventing miscarriage
Independent Online ‘This new method of producing stem cells could be enormously helpful for studying development, more efficiently generating functional human cells, and researching treatments for pregnancy problems such as pre-eclampsia and miscarriages,’ said co-author … |