Month: January 2016

A futuristic gene-editing technology holds almost fantastical promise to turn biologists’ wildest dreams into reality. The technology called CRISPR could one day be used to delete the HIV virus from patients’ cells, create a limitless supply of organs for transplant and produce better crops. Already, it’s being used...

New York: A new gene editing technique which was hailed as the breakthrough of 2015 by Science Magazine has been found effective in preventing retinal degeneration in a type of inherited blindness, a study says. The researchers focused on inherited retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye...

While several groups are working to apply the CRISPR/Cas9 system for clinical purposes, some are using the tool to address fundamental questions about biology. Reuven Agami, a professor of genetics at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, and his colleagues recently applied CRISPR to search...

A new gene-editing technology has been relentlessly hyped over the past year, and it goes by a catchy if rather incongruous acronym: Crispr. Hailed as the breakthrough of 2015 by Science Magazine, Crispr could potentially help eradicate diseases like malaria and, more controversially, could be...

Rodger Novak, Chief Executive Officer of CRISPR Therapeutics AG said, ” Crispr Therapeutics would consider an IPO in 2016.