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Insecticide resistance threatens to derail malaria control in Africa

Kate Kelland | 
The largest genetic study of mosquitoes has found their ability to resist insecticides is evolving rapidly and spreading across Africa, ...
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Can we solve the patent issues that threaten CRISPR research?

Lawrence Horn | 
[Editor's note: Lawrence Horn is President and CEO of MPEG LA, which provides licenses for standards and other technology platforms.] Although recent ...
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CRISPR and agriculture: Technology improving crop yields, nutrition and stress tolerance

The present study reviews agricultural applications related to the use of CRISPR systems in plants from 52 peer-reviewed articles published ...
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Video: World’s tiniest tape recorder made with CRISPR and built from microbes

[H]ere’s a use for the bacteria we bet you’ve never considered: Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center have created the world’s ...
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Podcast: CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna addresses ethics of human genome editing

Jennifer Doudna, Sam Harris | 
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jennifer Doudna about the gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9. They ...
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Sharpening CRISPR gene-editing accuracy with ‘molecular glue’

Silke Schmidt | 
[A]lthough [CRISPR] technology reliably finds and cuts the targeted stretch of DNA sequence, fixing that cut as desired has been ...
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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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Gene therapy challenge: Overcoming shortage of key and expensive viruses

Gina Kolata | 
Eager to speed development of revolutionary treatments, the Food and Drug Administration recently announced that it would expedite approval of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week – Nov. 27, 2017

CRISPR breathing new life into crop breeding—can it avoid GMO controversy? | Andrew Porterfield Viewpoint: Genetic engineering’s benefits extend far beyond ...
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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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Gene therapy boost: FDA positions for faster reviews of new treatments

Denise Grady, Sheila Kaplan | 
The Food and Drug Administration on [November 16] issued new guidelines to speed the introduction of treatments involving human cells ...
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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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FDA likely to approve hereditary blindness gene therapy

Rich Haridy | 
[A]nother gene therapy is on the cusp of approval, this time to treat a form of hereditary blindness. If given ...
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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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Video: CRISPR gene editing in real time

Sarah Zhang | 
[Researcher Osamu] Nureki’s paper was published in Nature Communications Friday, and by early morning, the video that astonished the room in [a CRISPR ...
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Are ‘gene drive’ trials too risky for field studies?

Carl Zimmer | 
In 2013, scientists discovered a new way to precisely edit genes — technology called Crispr... One of the more intriguing ...
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Saving the Galapagos: Gene drives could help rid invasive pests

Stephen Hall | 
Eradicating invasive species can be a brutal job. On the island of Floreana, a plan to eliminate the rodents that ...
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