Horizon Discovery describes how short hairpin RNA is advancing the development of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies
2020-05-22Mammoth Biosciences is responding to the urgent need for improved and more accessible testing for COVID-19 by rapidly reconfiguring the company’s CRISPR-based diagnostics platform to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2. In April, the company published a study demonstrating the pow…
2020-05-21MilliporeSigma said it has been granted two U.S. patents toward CRISPR-Cas9-assisted genome-editing, the company's 25th and 26th CRISPR patents worldwide and third and fourth in the U.S. [Janet Iwasa for the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley]
2020-05-20Every organism has its own family tree. And like any family tree, an organism’s family tree is more interesting if it’s both complete and richly detailed. That is, each member of the family tree should be displayed in their proper place along with some biographical information…
2020-05-19Despite being fundamentally important and having direct therapeutic implications, the functional genomics of the clinical isolates of multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens is often impeded by the lack of genome-editing tools. Here, we report the establishment of a highly efficient, …
2020-05-18A new gene-editing breakthrough allows scientists to easily snip out problems in genetic code, potentially removing thousands of deadly inherited diseases. The new technique could allow doctors to make changes to people's DNA and alter the molecular machines that help create us –…
2020-05-15Researchers say they have removed HIV from the DNA of mice, an achievement the scientists say could be an early step towards an elusive cure for humans. The breakthrough, detailed earlier this week in a study credited to more than 30 scientists from Temple University and the Unive…
2020-05-14corrects genetic defect so cells can normalize blood sugar
2020-05-12Whiteflies are among the most important agricultural pests in the world, yet they have been difficult to genetically manipulate and control, in part, because of their small size. An international team of researchers has overcome this roadblock by developing a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edit…
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