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• Find it hard to keep track of all the recent news about CRISPR clinical trials? Help is here! We have compiled a comprehensive list of all the gene-editing clinical studies currently registered in the US, China and Europe. Have a look - it's a growing list, and we will keep it updated.
• And we have posted a companion piece for our CRISPR clinical trials status overview 2020. Read about the trends across all the trials, the sort of treatments and diseases, the front-runners in CRISPR gene editing are focusing on.

And while on the topic of clinical trials...

• Our interview with immunotherapy pioneer Carl June and other experts talks to us about the first CRISPR gene therapy and how the data show it is safe.
• And the world's first CRISPR enhanced bacteriophage clinical trial for urinary tract infections.

Other good reads

• Interesting overview on the application of CRISPR to fight infectious diseases. Not surprisingly, the so-called new coronavirus (COVID-19) is in focus.
• More coronavirus news – CRISPR may actually become a fast and accurate diagnostic tool for COVID-19.
• New York scientists decipher design rules for RNA-targeting gRNAs. With their findings, they predicted optimised gRNAs for the entire human proteome! The same researchers also applied the data to predict gRNAs for a New York strain of COVID-19.

And we are growing!

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Science Writer Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt hails from Ireland where she obtained an Honours Bachelor Degree in Biological Sciences and a PhD in Biotechnology. She has a strong and broad research background, developed through a decade of work in various academic and startup labs in Ireland and Denmark. Karen is passionate about learning, asking questions and sharing knowledge with others - she will bring You loads of exciting stories that are bound to stimulate interesting discussions.

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