Month: December 2015

Illumina has made a strategic investment in Desktop Genetics (DTG) to advance DTG’s DESKGENgenome-editing software platform, the companies said today. The value of the investment was not disclosed. The investment will focus on integrating the platform with next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, as well as improving...

Image: T. Cowart/Flickr The world’s top geneticists decided to spend the vast majority of last week discussing how to keep new genetic editing tools from ultimately destroying the human race. A noble goal, sure. But considerably less time has been spent discussing how genetically editing...

Though much hyperbole has been used in connection with the gene-editing technology CRISPR, ironically, it may not be nearly enough. It’s difficult to overestimate the significance of a scientific innovation that augurs to fundamentally change what it means to be human. For this reason we...

A powerful gene editing technique that first evolved in bacteria has been used in everything from flies to human embryos…. You may have seen the headlines about CRISPR/Cas9, a powerful genetic technique that lets scientists “edit” genes. It’s been hailed as a miracle method that will...

Redirecting the gene-editing tool to modulate gene expression, researchers restore protein function in cells from a child with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. CRISPR is best known for its use in gene editing—slicing up base pairs to disable genes or correct genetic sequences. But by neutering the...

IN BRIEF Researchers at California’s Sangamo BioSciences are going to be the first to use the CRISPR genome editing techniques to tackle human ailments in a US FDA-approved study GENE EDITING AND THE TREATMENT OF HEMOPHILIA B The discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 system forever changed...

CRISPR, the new genome-editing tool, has already saved thousands of lives — but chances are you won’t meet any of the survivors. That’s because they’re lab mice. Scientists have been using dramatically fewer mice for each experiment since the advent of the groundbreaking technology. CRISPR,...

Once you’ve carried out CRISPR to generate mutations in your cells of interest, the next step is to identify those cells that have been successfully edited. Then, you can generate clonal populations of these cells, get on with the job of investigating the effect of...

MIT, Broad scientists overcome key The following is adapted from a press release issued today by the Broad Institute. Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have engineered changes to the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 genome...