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EU braces for landmark decision on whether CRISPR, other New Plant Breeding Techniques will be regulated as GMOs

Simon Marks | 
UPDATE: The European Court of Justice's advocate general has said gene editing technologies should be largely exempted from EU laws ...
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Report: Price for blindness gene therapy Luxturna is ‘four times too high’ at $850,000

Andrew Joseph | 
The $850,000 list price for a new medicine that treats a genetic form of childhood blindness is about four times too high ...
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CRISPR could be the answer to genetic engineering’s prayers

Antoine Danchin | 
Since its introduction four decades ago, genetic engineering has been a source of high hopes for health, agriculture, and industry ...
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CRISPR crops—exempt from GMO regulations—reaching US market in record time

Emily Waltz | 
CRISPR–Cas9-edited plants can be cultivated and sold free from regulation, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making increasingly clear ...
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‘Supersimilarity’: Identical twins are epigenetic twins as well

Stephen Fleischfresser | 
The sometimes-preternatural similarity of identical twins is more profound than previously thought. Identical twins, known to science as “monozygotic”, may ...
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Public embrace of CRISPR gene editing key to future of agriculture

Ed Maixner | 
The process of producing food, protecting the environment, and improving animal health is advancing at a seemingly breakneck pace. These ...
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Can CRISPR gene-edited ‘terminator bulls’ revolutionize the beef industry?

Andrew Rosenblum | 
After a year of trying, [Australian geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam's lab at the University of California succeeded in using] the ...
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Can gene therapy reduce terminal cancers to minor chronic diseases that are ‘no different than high blood pressure’?

Todd Balf | 
On Oct. 15 at 8 a.m., Andy Lindsay stood atop 21,247-foot Mera Peak in Nepal, a wildly improbable place for ...
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US Farm Bureau opposes non-GMO labels on products without GMO alternatives

An end to the use of non-GMO labels on products that do not have GMO alternatives, NAFTA modification to improve ...
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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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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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Could we fight HIV with new Car-T therapy?

Sharon Begley | 
The same kind of DNA tinkering that produced the first FDA-approved gene therapy for cancer has shown hints of suppressing and even ...
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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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Luxturna gene therapy approved for vision loss

Julianna LeMieux | 
The first two novel gene therapies for cancer treatment passed through FDA approval earlier this year, first B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) followed quickly ...
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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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Should patients—not the FDA— have final say on risky gene therapy treatments?

Dave Roos | 
Working with mice, researchers have used gene therapy to restore sight to the blind, reprogram the body’s own T cells ...
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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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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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FDA approves first gene therapy for a genetic disease—onetime cure for rare blindness

Linda Loyd | 
The first gene therapy to restore sight to individuals who suffer from a rare inherited genetic blindness was approved by ...
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