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Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology – KSUT Public Radio

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2017-10-25 NEWS

Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology
KSUT Public Radio
The technology is called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, or CRISPR. It’s a technique that Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal genetics professor at University of California, Davis, says can de-activate a gene. Or, as she puts it

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2017-10-25 NEWS

NICE approves novel gene therapy for ‘bubble baby syndrome’
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NICE approves novel gene therapy for ‘bubble baby syndrome’. Matthew Mckew – @Matthew_MckewNS. Posted 24 October 2017 – 09:00. NICE issues draft guidance on therapy for children with very rare condition ADA-SCID. You need to sign in or register …

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2017-10-25 NEWS

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Cancer survivor ‘friends for life’ with stem cell donor after two year search for ‘lifesaver’
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Nicky Turkoz, 52, a carer and mother of two, had to wait two years under transplant rules before she could find out the identity of the stranger who donated their stem cells. She finally met 49-year-old Annette Hamson a few weeks ago. Both arrived with

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Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology
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The technology is called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, or CRISPR. It’s a technique that Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal genetics professor at University of California, Davis, says can de-activate a gene. Or, as she puts it

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2017-10-25 NEWS

Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology
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Dozens of crops and livestock developed with CRISPR technology are years from the market, though the U.S. Department of Agriculture already said it won’t regulate CRISPR-developed products like other genetically engineered food, since no foreign …