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Why life-saving gene therapy isn’t available yet to children who need it most

Emily Mullin | 
[The first patient to permanently edit his DNA,] Brian Madeux, 44, of Arizona, is part of a clinical trial testing ...
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Video: CRISPR can do much more than gene editing

Using the CRISPR–Cas9 system, scientists can do much more than gene editing—they can boost gene transcription or use fluorescent proteins ...
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Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: Genetic engineering could save farm animals from disease

Alison Van Eenennaam, Gene Johnston | 
Alison Van Eenennaam is one of agriculture’s leading voices of reason and persuasion in support of good science in food ...
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How gene therapy could help fight methamphetamine addiction

Emily Mullin | 
Gene therapy, which modifies a person’s DNA, has long been thought of as a way to treat genetic diseases—and, more recently, ...
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Exploring national security risks related to gene editing

Jordan Gaal | 
Technology is advancing exponentially and the exciting field of genome editing is no exception. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
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Nano-mapping DNA mutations with CRISPR could transform disease treatment

A team of scientists led by Virginia Commonwealth University physicist Jason Reed, Ph.D., have developed new nanomapping technology that could ...
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Spy plants? DARPA working on genetically engineered surveillance sensors

Dom Galeon | 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the think-tank that’s under the U.S. Department of Defense, recently announced that it’s ...
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Video: Here’s how CRISPR gene editing works

Gene editing is in the news a lot these days, but what is it exactly? Gene editing is the process ...
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Viewpoint: Cost of gene therapy could put experimental treatments out of reach for most

Max Nisen | 
Drugs that modify human genes have the potential to cure intractable diseases with just one treatment. Few could disagree that's ...
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Canadian researchers can’t use CRISPR in human embryo research

Kristen Brown | 
In the United States, using genetic engineering techniques such as CRISPR to make genetic alterations that can be passed on ...
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FDA details risk-based cellular therapy and regenerative medicine guidelines

The FDA has issued two final guidances and two draft guidances, all designed to articulate the agency’s approach to developing ...
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Talking Biotech: Pet dogs with genetic diseases testing ground for gene therapy

Emily Mullin, Kevin Folta | 
Journalist Emily Mullin: Gene therapies becoming more promising but restricted in humans because of safety concerns, prompting some researchers to ...
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New T-cell treatment shows promise for treating leukemia

Denise Grady | 
A new way of genetically altering a patient’s cells to fight cancer has helped desperately ill people with leukemia when ...
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Fighting Zika: Gene edited, 3-eyed flightless mosquitoes

Dom Galeon | 
[I]n an effort to demonstrate how gene editing could be used to eradicate the mosquito species Aedes aegypti —a major carrier of ...
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Viewpoint: FDA should crack down on food safety misinformation

Val Giddings | 
[Editor's note: Val Giddings is a senior fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The following is part of a letter ...
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GMO supporters and critics weigh in on FDA’s biotech education initiative

Karl Haro von Mogel | 
[Editor's note: Karl Haro von Mogel is a geneticist with a PhD in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics from UW-Madison with ...
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Viewpoint: FDA regulations ‘a disaster’ for genetically modified animal research

Henry Miller, John Cohrssen | 
The Trump Administration and Congress should rein in the FDA's regulatory overreach on genetically engineered animals, which is stifling important ...
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USDA expects quick approval for genetically engineered virus to combat citrus greening disease in Florida

Jenny Hopkinson | 
The Agriculture Department is expected to allow Florida citrus growers to start using a genetically engineered virus to protect trees ...
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How tracing the evolutionary family tree of all female lab mice will help improve medical research

Sara Reardon | 
Adam and Eve, a pair of black mice, lived for less than two years and never left their home at ...
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Viewpoint: Ethical arguments against gene-edited embryos will crumble as technology advances

Michael White | 
[Editor's note: Michael White is a genetics professor at Washington University in St. Louis.] [S]cientists have developed an easy way to ...
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Viewpoint: Genetic engineering’s benefits extend far beyond GMO crops and controversy

Cameron English | 
In discussing biotechnology, too much controversy is focused on the crops developed by Monsanto and its competitors. Genetic engineering is ...
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Can gene tweaking lower our cholesterol? Using CRISPR and nanotechnology in mice

Julie Steenhuysen | 
U.S. researchers have used nanotechnology plus the powerful CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool to turn off a key cholesterol-related gene in ...
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Would switching to 100% organic farming help the environment? ‘Absolutely not’

Michael Le Page | 
Should the world’s farms go 100 percent organic to protect the environment? Absolutely not. One huge problem is that organic ...
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Podcast: Gene editing could make farm animals happier and healthier

Natasha Mitchell | 
Just one genetically modified animal has been approved for human consumption anywhere in the world. A fast growing species of ...
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CRISPR could revolutionize livestock breeding—if people will eat gene-edited animals

Ismael Lamas-Toranzo et al. | 
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), the last site-specific endonuclease to be developed, is an RNA- guided endonuclease, easy ...
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Siddhartha Mukherjee: Gene research critical in fight against cancer

Anh Gray | 
The human genome is integral to understanding the complex history of human health and disease. Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is a ...
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Genetically engineered three-eyed beetle could aid development of lab-grown organs

Michelle Star | 
Researchers have intentionally genetically modified a common beetle to develop a third functional eye, right in the middle of its ...
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