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Researcher backtracks on study suggesting He Jiankui’s controversial CRISPR babies will have shorter lifespans

Rebecca Robbins | 
A scientific study published this past spring came with damning implications for Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who created the world’s first ...
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CRISPR could save the lives of sick children by tweaking the embryos of their siblings

Andrew Joseph | 
[Tweaking an embryo’s DNA can] help save someone who is already alive. Take the case of Jessica and Keith, a ...
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Obesity and diabetes cure? CRISPR might be used to ‘silence’ key gene found in unhealthy fat

Arlene Weintraub | 
The gene FABP4 is highly active in adipose tissue and known to be a major contributor to obesity and related ...
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‘More versatile and less error prone’ SATI gene editing could eventually replace CRISPR

Liji Thomas | 
[S]cientists at the Salk Institute have developed a potential game changer in this field – a new gene editor called ...
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‘Permanent fix’ for melanoma, blindness, sickle cell? CRISPR gene editing tackles diseases

Lila Thulin | 
In the past 12 months, four clinical trials launched in the United States to use CRISPR to treat and potentially cure patients ...
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Answering key questions about CRISPR gene therapies

Christopher McFadden | 
What is gene editing?  Genome editing (also known as gene editing) is a group of technologies that provide scientists with ...
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CRISPR ‘put to the test’ against inherited blindness, blood disease. Next up Duchenne muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis

Tina Saey | 
Since its debut in 2012, CRISPR gene editing has held the promise of curing most of the over 6,000 known ...
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CRISPR moves from the lab to human trials, targeting blindness, beta thalassemia and sickle cell anemia

Alice Park | 
It’s only been seven years since scientists first learned how to precisely and reliably splice the human genome using a ...
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Rushing to revamp international gene-editing rules before ‘crazy people’ start opening embryo-editing clinics

Sharon Begley | 
The second-most shocking thing He Jiankui told the international genome editing summit in Hong Kong last November — right after ...
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Why we may never know the fate—good or bad—of China’s controversial CRISPR babies

Jon Cohen | 
Since the gene-edited babies known as Lulu and Nana became international news in November 2018, scientific debate and media speculation ...
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Sickle cell disease targeted with CRISPR therapy as ‘the only potential cure’

Donavyn Coffey | 
[F]or the first time, doctors in the United States used the gene editing tool CRISPR to attempt to remedy a ...
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Glimpse into the future? 2029 ‘press release’ touts services for designer babies

Jamie Metzl | 
In the future, parents may have the option to genetically engineer their children, and now is the time to discuss ...
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Calling for a halt to gene-edited babies, World Health Organization stops short of ‘all-out moratorium’

Megan Molteni | 
The world’s largest public health authority has weighed in with the most authoritative statement yet on the use of Crispr ...
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3 advantage of editing RNA with CRISPR, including this: It’s easier to erase mistakes

Shelly Fan | 
Rather than targeting DNA, a team at MIT repurposed CRISPR to edit single letters in RNA, the messengers that carry ...
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First attempt at using CRISPR to edit genes inside the body targets inherited form of blindness

Marilynn Marchione | 
Patients are about to be enrolled in the first study to test a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the ...
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CRISPR used to cure HIV in mice. Will it lead to new treatments for humans?

Hannah Knowles | 
Researchers say they have removed HIV from the DNA of mice, an achievement the scientists say could be an early ...
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Will China tell the world about its third controversial CRISPR baby?

Antonio Regalado | 
The Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in Hong Kong last November, was meant to debate the pros ...
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Scientific, social and ethical barriers must be overcome before the world is ready for CRISPR babies, researchers say

Heidi Ledford | 
Nature asked researchers and other stakeholders what hurdles remain before heritable gene editing could become acceptable as a clinical tool ...
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Podcast: Talking CRISPR with controversial biohacker Josiah Zayner

Is biohacking a crime? Who came up with the latest CRISPR trick? And did Rage Against the Machine sell out? ...
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Like it or not, the ‘Pandora’s box’ of gene-edited babies has been opened

Edd Gent | 
Denis Rebrikov is the head of a genome-editing laboratory at the Kulakov National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Russia’s largest ...
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Why we can’t do anything about a Russian scientist’s plans to create more CRISPR babies

Rick Berke | 
Two influential leaders in science for the first time publicly condemned a Russian biologist who said he plans to produce ...
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Genetic engineering goes to Hollywood: 10 movies you’ll love and more that you’ll hate

Get to know 26 films and TV shows that feature gene editing ...
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Viewpoint: We don’t need another study to convince us that gene-edited babies are a bad idea

Katie Hasson | 
He [Jiankui] attempted to disable a gene called CCR5 by producing a variant that has been shown to confer resistance ...
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Another CRISPR controversy brews as Russian scientist announces plans to produce gene-edited babies

David Cyranoski | 
A Russian scientist says he is planning to produce gene-edited babies, an act that would make him only the second ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Greed and profit’ will drive human gene editing unless we develop strong regulations

Wesley Smith | 
We may now be on the verge of adding germline engineering to the menu of available reproductive services, that will, ...
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CRISPR babies with ‘protective’ HIV mutation could have shorter life span

Antonio Regalado | 
When the Chinese scientist He Jiankui created the first gene-edited children, he dreamed of improving the world. He believed the ...
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Congress renews ban on editing human embryos, despite calls from scientists touting research benefits

Andrew Joseph | 
A House committee on Tuesday [June 4] restored to pending legislation a ban on altering the genomes of human embryos ...
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