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Huntington’s Reversed with CRISPR – Anti Aging News

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2017-06-21 NEWS

Anti Aging News

Huntington’s Reversed with CRISPR
Anti Aging News
Scientists made use of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing delivered through a viral vector. They snipped a segment of a gene that produces toxic protein aggregates within the brains of mice. Several weeks later, the aggregated proteins nearly disappeared in the …

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2017-06-21 NEWS

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Study Finds Distant Brain Regions Selectively Recruit Stem Cells
Scicasts (press release) (blog)
Basel, Switzerland (Scicasts) — Stem cells persist in the adult mammalian brain and generate new neurons throughout life. A research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel reports in the current issue of “Science” that long-distance brain …

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2017-06-21 NEWS

Daily Californian

China will grant CRISPR patent to UC
Daily Californian
China’s State Intellectual Property Office, or SIPO, announced Monday that it will grant the University of California, in conjunction with the University of Vienna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, a patent for its CRISPR gene-editing technology. China’s
Intellia to win China patent for CRISPRBSI bureau (press release)

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