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CRISPR gene-editing tested in a person for the first time

A Chinese group has become the first to inject a person with cells that contain genes edited using the revolutionary CRISPR–Cas9 technique. On 28 October, a team led by oncologist Lu You at Sichuan University in Chengdu delivered the modified cells into a patient with...
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CRISPR used to make a tumour shrink itself

Scientists have used gene editing to reprogramme a signal that normally promotes tumour growth into one that shrinks it instead. In a study published in Nature Methods, a team from the First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, China, showed how they could stop the growth...
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CRISPR: A Billion-Dollar Pie

CRISPR sits in the middle of a costly patent brawl. That hasn’t stopped scientists and venture capitalists from betting on who will win. Business is moving fast with licenses being sold, awaiting the USPTO’s decision in November which may declare a winner on the patent. When...
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Scientists shocked by major CRISPR breakthrough

Genetic engineering has popped up in the headlines again after a breakthrough study pushed the CRISPR-Cas9 editing technique to a new level of precision. According to a report from Nature, the technique used for cutting and pasting genes has now been adapted to work for...
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CRISPR Treatment for HIV reportedly three years away

An end to HIV and Supports reportedly could be simply a couple of years away after researchers have had the opportunity to successfully snip away the disease from infected skin cells and prevent the condition from returning.  Researchers at the Lewis Katz College of Medication...
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CRISPR could eventually allow us to treat HIV, cancer, autism

Researchers have managed to devise a new method using gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 that can track movement of RNA in living cells thereby enabling them to study a wide range of disease-related RNA processes. The study, published in Cell, paves way for even greater promise of...
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