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U.S. researchers improve CRISPR gene editing technique

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,...
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Crispr goes commercial: Genetic goldrush

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...
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Controversial CRISPR history sets off an online firestorm

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...
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Doctors Might One Day Treat Cancer By Cutting Bad DNA

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...
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‘Crispr’ gene editing technique may treat inherited blindness

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...
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Finding Enhancers with CRISPR

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...
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