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With GMO Struggle In Mind, Food Industry Vying For Public Trust With CRISPR Discussion – KUNC

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With GMO Struggle In Mind, Food Industry Vying For Public Trust With CRISPR Discussion
KUNC
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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Rare Disease Report

Part 3 of Gene Therapy Trial for MPS IIIA (Sanfilippo A) Has Begun
Rare Disease Report
On Monday, Rare Disease Report covered the release of new information from Abeona Therapeutics’ gene therapy trial for patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA (MPS IIIA, Sanfilippo syndrome). One year data from Cohort 1 in the company’s 3-cohort, …

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Stem Cell Therapy Helping NBA Athletes With Joint Inflammation, Irritation
CBS Miami
“The first thing I think we need to do is be clear what we’re talking about when we’re saying stem cells, because people can get a little crazy when they hear the phrase ‘stem cell.’” That’s how Dr. Riley Williams, orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital

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Experimental gene therapy for blindness considered by FDA
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“In those drops of liquid that we’re injecting is a gene therapy virus … a virus that contains a healthy version of the gene,” said Mahajan, who was involved in the phase 3 clinical trial of the drug while teaching at the University of Iowa, one of

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fox6now.com

Experimental gene therapy for blindness considered by FDA
fox6now.com
“In those drops of liquid that we’re injecting is a gene therapy virus … a virus that contains a healthy version of the gene,” said Mahajan, who was involved in the phase 3 clinical trial of the drug while teaching at the University of Iowa, one of

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