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Controlling CRISPR
As our understanding of CRISPR technology grows, the extraordinary potential of this gene-editing system in the realm of therapeutic development comes closer and closer to realization. However, ownership of the intellectual property (IP) behind this technology is set to spark a protracted patent feud between...
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CRISPR Chain Reaction
A CRISPR Solution to ‘Bubble Boy’ Disease?
Microbiome Editing with CRISPR/Cas9 Has Research, Diagnostic Potential
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Two of the bacterial kingdom’s greatest assets, the CRISPR “immune” system and horizontal gene transfer of plasmids by conjugation, could be exploited by humans to wipe out specific communities of bacteria or even turn them into useful reporters. CRISPR/Cas9 provides a...
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Building a genomic GPS with CRISPR
Scientists Call for a Summit on Gene-Edited Babies
A group of senior American scientists and ethics experts is calling for debate on the gene-engineering of humans, warning that technology able to change the DNA of future generations is now “imminent.” In policy recommendations published today in the journal Science, eighteen researchers, including two...
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Biologists devise invasion plan for mutations
Biologists devise invasion plan for mutations On 28 December 2014, Valentino Gantz and Ethan Bier checked on the fruit flies that had just hatched in their lab at the University of California (UC), San Diego. By the classic rules of Mendelian genetics, only one out...
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