Crowdfunding campaigns raise millions to pay for stem cell therapies, but don’t talk about risk – MarketWatch
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Crowdfunding campaigns raise millions to pay for stem cell therapies, but don’t talk about risk
MarketWatch You wouldn’t know it, though, from looking at online crowdfunding campaigns seeking to raise money for expensive stem cell therapies, according to a new research letter published in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA on Tuesday. Campaigns vastly … Crowdfunding Campaigns Overstate Stem Cell BenefitsMedscape Crowd-Funding for Stem Cell Tx Often Based on MisinformationMedPage Today Duped patients crowdfund for bogus medical care, study saysWashington Post |
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Taking CRISPR from Clipping Scissors to Word Processor
Lab Manager Magazine Using the gene-editing tool CRISPR to snip at DNA is often akin to using scissors to edit a newspaper article. You can cut out words, but it’s difficult to remove individual letters or instantly know how the cuts affect the meaning of the text. Someday … |
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New CRISPR technology ‘knocks out’ yeast genes with single-point precision
Science Daily The CRISPR-Cas9 system has given researchers the power to precisely edit selected genes. Now, researchers have used it to develop a technology that can target any gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and turn it off by deleting single letters … Researchers harness the precision of CRISPR to knock out single genes in yeastNews-Medical.net CRISPR-guided proximity labeling—dissecting gene transcription’s proteomic choreographyPhys.Org |