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Potential CRISPR setback jolts investors, but researchers say there’s no need to panic

Kristen Brown | 
On [January 8], the world of science awoke to news that suddenly cast uncomfortable doubt on many of the past ...
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CRISPR setback? Our immune system may attack the treatment used with the popular gene editor

Andrew Joseph | 
A new paper points to a previously unknown hurdle for scientists racing to develop therapies using the revolutionary genome-editing tool ...
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CAR-T gene therapy treatments may fall short of corrective goals, requiring surgical gene editing

Thomas Reinke | 
For decades, researchers, some physicians, and a few patients have had visions of treatments that would go in and fix ...
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Dog DNA could be man’s best friend: Clone of gene-edited dog aids human heart disease research

Matt Rivers, Serenitie Wang, Shunhe Wang | 
With his black, brown and white fur, Longlong looks like most beagles. But the puppy has been sick with a ...
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Is President Trump pro-GMO?

Antonio Regalado | 
“We are streamlining regulations that have blocked cutting-edge biotechnology, setting free our farmers to innovate, thrive, and to grow,” Trump told a ...
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Can CRISPR gene editing save chocolate from extinction?

Erin Brodwin | 
Beyond the glittery glass-and-sandstone walls of the University of California’s new biosciences building, rows of tiny green cacao seedlings in ...
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Lou Gehrig’s disease might be treatable using CRISPR

University of California, Berkeley scientists have for the first time used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to disable a defective gene that ...
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Popular Cavendish banana heading towards extinction, with GMO and gene edited varieties only viable saviors

Nathaniel Scharping | 
We are in the age of the Cavendish, a banana cultivar that accounts for 99 percent of imports to the Western world. But ...
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Improving the health of dairy cows using gene edited breeding–What are the issues?

S. Eriksson et al | 
How society regards the use of genetic modification and genome editing can have a significant influence on how these technologies ...
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Beyond GMOs: Gene editing’s potential to transform food and farming depends on public acceptance

David Rotman | 
[The following is part of a letter from the editor of MIT Technology Review, David Rotman.] Decades of fretting over the ...
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Hearing loss linked to single mutation might be treatable with gene editing

Lydia Denworth | 
When David Liu first heard about a strain of mouse from his colleague Zheng-Yi Chen, he got excited. The mice ...
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Looking back at 2017’s genetics breakthroughs

Kristen Brown | 
It was a big year for the building blocks of life. Here were the most significant breakthroughs in genetics research ...
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Should it matter if the public is wary of gene editing and human enhancement?

Grant Jacobs | 
A survey of people in the US and 10 European nations found opposition to some forms of gene editing for ...
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How CRISPR gene editing is revolutionizing the world–and why we need to cautious about it

Emily Folk | 
Until recently, gene editing used to be relegated to science fiction novels and movies. The idea of being able to ...
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Why 2018 might not be a banner year for CRISPR gene editing in humans

Emily Mullin | 
Ever since scientists first used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit living human cells in 2013, they’ve been saying that the possibilities for ...
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Will new wave of gene-edited crops ease public fear of GMO food?

Antonio Regalado | 
To many scientists, the potential of gene editing seems nearly limitless, offering a new way to rapidly create plants that ...
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Navigating the ‘promise and peril’ of bioengineering

Thomas Hornigold | 
We’re standing on the threshold of extraordinary capability in synthetic biology. CRISPR-Cas9, the genome editing technique discovered in 2014, is ...
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Personalized piglets could offer insights into disease progression in children

Ed Yong | 
To better understand [incurable inherited disease neurofibromatosis type 1, Charles] Konsitzke learned, you need a species that’s closer in both ...
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Scientists fight back against call for moratorium on gene-drive research

Kelly Crowe | 
It sounds like the plot of a science fiction novel: Scientists discover how to eradicate an entire species. Environmentalists want to stop the ...
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Free access to CRISPR gene editing? This startup wants to make it possible

Sy Mukherjee | 
CRISPR gene editing is widely regarded as one of the most significant advances in the life sciences in decades. The technology, ...
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Italian family’s inability to feel pain spurs research on relief for chronic sufferers

Ricki Lewis | 
The six members of the family barely notice broken bones or severe burns. Researchers have identified the mutation behind their ...
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Hemophilia A gene therapy trial results: ‘This is huge’

James Gallagher | 
British doctors say they have achieved "mind-blowing" results in an attempt to rid people of haemophilia A. Patients are born ...
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Birth defects in Brazil linked to Zika, not insecticides or vaccines

Helen Branswell | 
In the fall and early winter of 2015, a startling number of infants in northeastern Brazil were born with abnormally small ...
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5 gene-edited crops slated to hit the market in the near future

Gil Gullickson | 
Farmers quickly gleaned agronomic benefits from GMO technology. Consumers? Not so much. Gene editing could change that, since it’s keying ...
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Treating spinal cord injuries by genetically modifying cells that help us smell

Patrick Caughill | 
Researchers from the University of Bristol have just shared the promising results of a new treatment for spinal cord injuries that could ...
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Can CRISPR really save lives? People with beta thalassemia blood disease likely first human trial subjects

Vamien McKalin | 
For those who have no idea what CRISPR is all about, the abbreviation means “Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.” ...
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Bringing home the bacon: Will consumers eat gene-edited pigs?

Cheryl Day | 
Genetic selection through precise breeding programs U.S. pig farmers with assistance from genetic companies have drastically increased the number of ...
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