Your missing links are here (28 October 2019)

Some of the best stuff we picked up around the Internet

By: Rasmus Kragh Jakobsen - Oct. 28, 2019

The new Prime Editing prototype gene editing method explained by Emma Yasinski at The Scientist. Combining CRISPR-Cas9 and base-editing David Liu and colleagues at the Broad Institute cuts only one strand of DNA to gain better precision and similar efficiency as CRISPR-Cas9 solo. Also here and here.
Russian ‘CRISPR-baby’ scientist has started work. David Cyranoski, Nature News, reports that biologist Denis Rebrikov's controversial 'CRISPR-baby' plans have taken a turn from making HIV resistant babies to repair the gene linked to deafness, called GJB2. And here. And meet a deaf woman who considers collaborating with Rebrikov to have hearing 'CRISPR-babies'.
Promising new gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy using dystrophin's distant cousin utrophin
Geneticists retract study suggesting the chinese 'CRISPR-babies' might die early
Dynamic genomes - feature on how genes are born de novo from barren stretches of the genome.

Bill Gates og NIH invests in CRISPR gene therapy for the poor
NIH director, Francis S. Collins, lays out inspirational vision for the future of medical science
Jennifer Doudna on the gene-editing revolution

Bluebird Bio gets green light from European health regulators for manufacturing blood disease gene therapy
100 infants treated for spinal muscular atrophy with first commercialised gene therapy
Novo Nordisk enters haemophilia gene therapy collaboration with Bluebird Bio

Amazing scientific visualization - 3D digital video tour for learning about biology and medicine
More visuals - I just love Nikon’s Small World Competition 'showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope'. Image Credit: Teresa Zgoda & Teresa Kugler, winning entry Nikon Small World Competition 2019
Oh, finally there's the tiny Greta beetle, and the rat-mobile (VIDEO)