CRISPR, crispr genome editing system

In this article outlined three recent studies that have advanced the potential uses of CRISPR in the biomedical field. A new variant for CRISPR In a new study, researchers from Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan, US, revealed that using a novel variant to...

Metastasis is responsible for most cancer-related deaths, but it’s hard to trace. Now, a group of researchers has developed a CRISPR-based method that helped track tumor spreading patterns. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of California, Berkeley and the University of...

Scientists have discovered how to switch off a key ‘pain gene’, dramatically raising hopes of a long-term treatment to relieve the agony of serious illness for millions. The revolutionary technique alters a patient’s DNA, silencing a gene that transmits pain signals up the spine. Preliminary...

Shares of Crispr Therapeutics (CRSP) jumped Tuesday after the biotech company’s gene-editing approach showed early promise. During the regular session on the stock market today, Crispr stock popped 17%, to 68.46, in above-average volume. At nine months following infusion, the beta thalassemia patient didn’t need a blood transfusion. Four months after...

The first attempt in the United States to use a gene editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in three patients who’ve had it so far,  doctors reported Wednesday. The doctors were able to take immune system cells from the patients’ blood and alter...

There’s been a lot of excitement lately that the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR could offer a new way to treat health problems ranging from cancer to blindness. But there hasn’t been much direct scientific evidence in actual patients about whether it might work or would...

Scientists say is a step toward a CRISPR gene therapy that could block severe pain caused by diabetes, cancer, or car accidents without the addictive effects of opioids. The street performer was only 10 years old. He put knives through his arms and walked on...

Scientists will soon wield the molecular scissors CRISPR/Cas9 in the human body. Some people with a form of inherited blindness will have the gene editor injected into their eyes, where researchers hope it will snip out a mutation. Since its debut in 2012, CRISPR gene...

Genes and proteins in cells interact in many different ways. Each dot represents a gene; the lines are their interactions. For the first time, the new method uses biotechnology to influence entire gene networks in a single step(Credit: ETH Zurich / Carlo Cosimo Campa) We’ve seen...