

New CRISPR Tools Can Cut, Splice Whole ChromosomesSeptember 3, 2019 |
The new tools will likely open the doors for scientists to explore many novel areas. With comments from our Alan Regenberg
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New CRISPR Tools Can Cut, Splice Whole ChromosomesSeptember 3, 2019 |
The new tools will likely open the doors for scientists to explore many novel areas. With comments from our Alan Regenberg
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A Community-Guided Genome Editing Project Can Fight Lyme DiseaseAugust 22, 2019 |
Kevin Esvelt of MIT writes, “The epidemic of Lyme disease is an ecological problem of our own making: We have inadvertently altered our environment to maximize the number of infected ticks. The question today is whether we should consider altering the genomes of wild animals to undo that mistake.”
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Mosquitoes Might Be Humanity’s Greatest FoeAugust 21, 2019 |
Should we get rid of them? The pesky insect is the deadliest animal in human history
Quick ReadThe technology that produced a global scandal in China last year has entered into clinical trials to treat sickle cell anemia and an eye disease
Quick ReadChina now has at least four groups of CRISPR researchers doing gene editing with large colonies of monkeys
Quick ReadVictoria Gray is waiting patiently in a hospital room at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville
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