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First World CRISPR Day Celebrates Progress and...

Oct. 21, 2020

Virtual event featured talk from recent Nobel Prize recipient Jennifer Doudna, as well as in-depth discussion of many areas of basic and clinical...

Safety is Key to Novel CRISPR Medicines

Oct. 12, 2020

With the Nobel Prize in Chemistry being awarded to the founding mothers of CRISPR - Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna - genome editing is...

Breaking: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes...

Oct. 7, 2020

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Drs. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna. They receive the...

CRISPR gene therapy makes fat cells burn fat and...

Aug. 26, 2020

Scientists use CRISPR to change the fate of adipocytes, so bad fat is turned into good fat. Effectively treating fat with fat, this might help...

Curing hereditary blindness with CRISPR-Cas...

Aug. 20, 2020

Using 'dead' dCas9 fused to transcriptional activators researchers wake silent genes to alleviate blindness in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa -...

Organ-Specific CRISPR With SORT Nanoparticles. ...

Jun. 3, 2020

Continuous advances in gene editing technologies provide hopes for better therapies and cures for genetic diseases. However, a few obstacles remain,...

Decoding Guide RNA Rules for Cas13

May. 26, 2020

New research opens the door to RNA editing therapies that can influence gene expression without making permanent genetic changes. Neville Sanjana’s...

First Chinese CRISPR gene therapy trial...

Apr. 28, 2020

The first CRISPR data from China is out. CRISPR-Cas9-edited T cells were investigated as a treatment for aggressive lung cancer in a clinical trial....