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CRISPR Is Not Accurate Enough to Save Us Yet – Motherboard

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2017-06-08 NEWS

Motherboard

CRISPR Is Not Accurate Enough to Save Us Yet
Motherboard
And it’s ubiquity isn’t surprising because CRISPR is one of the biggest scientific discoveries of our time. It tremendously improves upon earlier gene-editing techniques because it’s fast, cheap, and accurate. Or so we thought. A new study published

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2017-06-08 NEWS

Synovial stem cells respond to a YAP
Nature.com
Growth/differentiation factor 5 (GDF5)-lineage mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) residing in the synovium of adult mice respond to cartilage injury and aid repair via the actions of transcriptional co-activator YAP1, according to new research. “Our

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2017-06-08 NEWS

Synovial stem cells respond to a YAP
Nature.com
Growth/differentiation factor 5 (GDF5)-lineage mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) residing in the synovium of adult mice respond to cartilage injury and aid repair via the actions of transcriptional co-activator YAP1, according to new research. “Our

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2017-06-08 NEWS

BRINK

Synthetic Biology: Next Wave of Disruption for Industrialization of Biology
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Synthetic biology—a relatively new field that aims to make biology easier to engineer—is quietly disrupting traditional manufacturing methods, leading to the industrialization of biology and a global market estimated to be worth $11.4 billion by 2021

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2017-06-08 NEWS

Columbus Business First

Nationwide Children’s spins out fourth gene therapy company – this one is staying in Central Ohio
Columbus Business First
Nationwide Children’s Hospital has spun out its fourth gene therapy startup to result from decades of research and millions in investment in manufacturing equipment and commercialization personnel.

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2017-06-07 NEWS

WIRED

Crispr May Cure All Genetic Disease—One Day
WIRED
Jennifer Doudna was sitting in her UC Berkeley office when she got the first call from a reporter asking what she thought about scientists using Crispr to modify embryos. At the time, the embryos in question were monkeys. It was late 2014, and Doudna

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