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Top 10 CRISPR predictions for New Year 2016

CRISPR is the hottest new biotechnology and the top development of 2015 according to Science Magazine. What will the new year of 2016 bring on the CRISPR front? It’s clear there will be more meetings on CRISPR ethics and policy (heck, we are having one...
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Bayer, CRISPR Therapeutics Launch JV to Develop CRISPR/Cas9 Treatments

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Switzerland’s CRISPR Therapeutics and Germany’s Bayer today announced a yet unnamed joint venture to develop ways to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in a clinical setting. The deal brings together Bayer’s experience in protein engineering and knowledge of human diseases with CRISPR...
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BIG IDEA: CRISPR REMAKES THE WORLD

2016 IS GOING TO BE A BIG YEAR FOR THE GENE EDITING TECHNIQUE The gene-editing technique called CRISPR has the much-hyped potential to revolutionize medicine, deliver designer babies, and end global hunger. Developed from a mechanism found in bacteria, CRISPR allows scientists to cut-and-paste DNA...
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Genome-editing revolution: My whirlwind year with CRISPR

Jennifer Doudna, a pioneer of the revolutionary genome-editing technology, reflects on how 2015 became the most intense year of her career β€” and what she’s learnt. Illustration By David Parkins Expand Some 20 months ago, I started having trouble sleeping. It had been almost two...
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‘We all kind of marvel at how fast this took off’

On a warm September afternoon on the verdant campus of Long Island’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an elite cadre of scientists gathered to discuss a simple yet incredibly powerful new genetic technology. Jennifer Doudna was dressed casually in a blazer and jeans, with a scarf...
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Mammoth may be resurrected sooner than you think

Of all the varied and incredible possibilities presented by the controversial new gene-editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9, perhaps the most intriguing are efforts to bring animals back from extinction. Candidates for de-extinction, as the process is known, include species like the passenger pigeon (the last...
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Breakthrough of the Year: CRISPR makes the cut

By John Travis It was conceived after a yogurt company in 2007 identified an unexpected defense mechanism that its bacteria use to fight off viruses. A birth announcement came in 2012, followed by crucial first steps in 2013 and a massive growth spurt last year....
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Heredity Is Nobody’s Fault. Until Now.

We are all unwitting players in a genetic lottery. Take a gene called APOE. It comes in three flavors – APOE2, APOE3 and APOE4. All three are considered normal human genes, but people who were dealt an APOE4 face three to five times the average...
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