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CRISPR Skin Grafts Could Replace Insulin Shots For Diabetes – ScienceAlert

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2017-08-05 NEWS

Daily Mail

CRISPR Skin Grafts Could Replace Insulin Shots For Diabetes
ScienceAlert
If you’re new to the CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) phenomenon, it’s a new and innovative way of editing specific genes in the body, using a biological copy and paste technique: it can do everything from cut out HIV …
Controversial CRISPR gene-editing could replace daily insulin injections in diabetes patientsDaily Mail
CRISPR-treated skin graft used to treat diabetes in miceNew Atlas
CRISPR Gene Therapy via Skin Grafts Treats Obesity and Diabetes in MiceGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
New Scientist –Diabetes.co.uk –Science Daily
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2017-08-04 NEWS

WMBF

Surfside Beach woman anonymously donates stem cells to young woman with leukemia
WMBF
Winfield donates school supplies to kids in need, she helps people on some of the worst days of their lives as an EMT, and she recently donated blood stem cells to a young woman she doesn’t even know. Every three minutes someone is diagnosed with a …

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2017-08-04 NEWS

Science Magazine

CRISPR patent battle in Europe takes a ‘wild’ twist with surprising player
Science Magazine
The European Patent Office (EPO) on 27 July signaled that it intends to grant a patent to MilliporeSigma, which operates in the United States and Canada, for the use of CRISPR to splice genetic information into eukaryotic cells. Just such a “knock-in

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2017-08-04 NEWS

Alzforum

CRISPR Edits Genome of Human Embryos
Alzforum
Scientists have used the CRISPR-Cas9 precision gene-editing system to snip a disease-causing mutation right out of viable human embryos. They did so without accidentally cutting DNA elsewhere, or inducing a heretofore common problem with editing …
Following gene editing milestone, bioethics professor ventures into CRISPR minefieldMedCity News
11 Organizations Urge Caution, Not Ban, on CRISPR Germline Genome EditingGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (press release)
What is CRISPR-Cas9, how does gene editing work, who discovered the technique and could it mean we live longer?The Sun
Science News Magazine –New York Times –Technology Networks
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2017-08-04 NEWS

OncLive

Wakelee Shares Latest on Immunotherapy, EGFR Inhibitors in Lung Cancer
OncLive
The scope of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been progressively transforming every few months, with regulatory decisions and emerging regimens making their way through the pipeline, most recently with EGFR inhibitors and immunotherapy agents …

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2017-08-04 NEWS

OncLive

Wakelee Shares Latest on Immunotherapy, EGFR Inhibitors in Lung Cancer
OncLive
The scope of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been progressively transforming every few months, with regulatory decisions and emerging regimens making their way through the pipeline, most recently with EGFR inhibitors and immunotherapy agents …