CosmosReducing the side-effects of CRISPR gene editingCosmosThe revolutionary CRISPR gene-editing technology holds huge potential to cure all manner of genetic diseases and disorders, efficiently deleting and replacing faulty genes at a fraction of the… Continue reading
Anne EdelsteinTablet MagazineWhen the nurse asked Roy if he wanted to have his stem cells blessed by a chaplain, we laughed it off, even though the nurse, who dealt with stem cell transplants on a daily basis, looked puzzled about what we might be laug… Continue reading
Harvard Gazette |
New CRISPR technology takes cells to the movies
Harvard Gazette In 2016, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School (HMS) led by Wyss core faculty member George Church built the first molecular recorder based on the CRISPR system. The recorder allows cells to … Scientists Used CRISPR to Put a GIF Inside a Living Organism’s DNAMIT Technology Review Researchers use CRISPR to store a movie in living bacteriaSTAT Scientists Can Use CRISPR to Store Images and Movies in BacteriaThe Atlantic WIRED –U.S. News & World Report –UC Berkeley –YouTube all 140 news articles » |
41 NBC News |
New Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Dire Cancer Cases
41 NBC News Dimas Padilla, 43, of Kissimmee, is in remission from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after receiving an experimental cancer therapy called CAR-T. Here, he poses with his wife, Johanna Padilla. NBC News. It’s worked well in patients who had no other options … |
MIT Technology Review |
Scientists Used CRISPR to Put a GIF Inside Living DNA
MIT Technology Review They’ve used the gene-editing system CRISPR to insert a short animated image, or GIF, into the genomes of living Escherichia coli bacteria. The researchers converted the individual pixels of each image into nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. Scientists Can Use CRISPR to Store Images and Movies in BacteriaThe Atlantic Scientists Upload a Galloping Horse GIF Into Bacteria With CrisprWIRED Taking cells out to the movies with new CRISPR technologyPhys.Org Nature.com –STAT all 14 news articles » |
Mitochondrial Disease News |
Compound Called MITO-PIP May Have Potential as Gene Therapy for Mitochondrial Diseases
Mitochondrial Disease News A compound that can silence a gene in a very specific manner was adapted by researchers to be used inside mitochondria — opening the possibility of manipulating genes linked to mitochondrial diseases. MITO-PIP, as the scientists call the compound … |
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FDA cancer advisers OK ‘major advance’ — individualized cancer therapy
Chicago Sun-Times Called CAR–T, it involves removing immune cells from a patient’s blood, genetically altering them — in effect, reprogramming them to create an army of cells that can zero in on and destroy cancer cells — and then injecting them back into the patient … |