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Examining the ethics of gene therapy – Quad

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2018-03-26 NEWS

Quad

Examining the ethics of gene therapy
Quad
Will editing your baby’s genome someday be mandatory? An article in The Atlantic asked this question last year in reference to gene therapy as a medical treatment for genetic disorders. The author drew a moral analogy from the 1984 case of two parents

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2018-03-26 NEWS

Quad

Examining the ethics of gene therapy
Quad
Will editing your baby’s genome someday be mandatory? An article in The Atlantic asked this question last year in reference to gene therapy as a medical treatment for genetic disorders. The author drew a moral analogy from the 1984 case of two parents

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2018-03-26 NEWS

Genetic Literacy Project

Dementia treatment shows promise in CRISPR lab tests
Genetic Literacy Project
Salk Institute scientists reported [March 15] that they’ve invented a new version of the technology that works on RNA, combining CRISPR/Cas9’s precision with the ability to turn its effects on and off at will. And because it leaves DNA untouched, it’s

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2018-03-26 NEWS

Medical Xpress

DNA methylation plays key role in stem cell differentiation
Medical Xpress
After analyzing the stem cells along with the differentiating neural progenitors and the motor neuron populations, Alberto Ortega, Ph.D., senior postdoctoral fellow in Kiskinis’ laboratory and lead author on the study, concluded that the enzyme DNMT3A

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