Month: January 2016

Hailed as a breakthrough with the potential to correct genetic mutations and cure life-threatening diseases, the gene editing platform CRISPR/Cas9 may also be able to reverse an inherited condition that causes blindness. Scientists at the Columbia University Medical Center and University of Iowa used CRISPR to repair...

By Dr. Mercola In his 1932 sci-fi novel “Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley explored what life might be like in AD 2540 — a world in which children are born in government owned baby hatcheries. In his world, human freedom is virtually non-existent, as each...

Editas Medicine is pushing ahead with plans to go public. An IPO for the Cambridge, MA-based company would make it the first among the handful of biotechs that are betting on the groundbreaking CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system to develop human therapeutics. In a regulatory filing...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) — Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, have improved CRISPR-Cas9 technology and achieved a success rate of 60 percent when replacing a short stretch of DNA with another. The advance in CRISPR, short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,...

Within just three years since the discovery of its gene-editing potential, the new technique Crispr has become the hottest, and most controversial, development in genomics research. And now it’s more than just a science – it’s big business too. First discovered in bacteria, Crispr (clustered...

Nicolo Fusi is one of the researchers who collaborated on the new CRISPR tools A team of researchers from Microsoft and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new system that allows researchers to more quickly and effectively use the powerful gene...

It isn’t often that biology finds itself in the same galaxy of the Twitterverse as, say, “The Bachelor,” but on Tuesday morning CRISPR did. The trending topic was sparked by a recent “Perspective” in Cell limning the history of the gene-editing technique. But this history was loaded, as history...

Gene editing grabbed headlines recently after the discovery of CRISPR, a tool that allows scientists to cut out a particular, potentially faulty gene and paste another one in its place. Dozens of other gene-editing technologies existed before CRISPR. French biotechnology company Cellectis was experimenting with...

Intellia Therapeutics has launched a new division, eXtellia Therapeutics, with the intent of focusing resources and research on ex vivo applications of the novel technology, CRISPR/Cas9. As in vivo and ex vivo programs require different competencies in research, manufacturing and commercialization, eXtellia Therapeutics is being...

LONDON—The hottest technique in gene editing, called CRISPR, could soon be used to study human embryos. On 14 January, a regulatory committee in the United Kingdom will evaluate a request to knock out development genes in day-old embryos. In a press conference today, Kathy Niakan,...