Revolutionary treatments come with elevated risks, costs
Recent innovations in DNA-modifying will revolutionize the treatment of many diseases and prompt crucial discussions.
Genome-edited rice shows resistance to bacterial blight in East Africa
The international Healthy Crops consortium has developed an innovative strategy to combat the disease bacterial blight (for short: BB) in rice using genome editing technology. If approved for use by ...
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Creating the World’s First CRISPR Medicine, for Sickle Cell Disease
In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long ...
Arachnid evolution redefined: Whole-genome duplications and multiple land colonizations
A recent paper provides an updated perspective on the evolutionary history of chelicerates—a diverse and ecologically ...
Health Rounds: Gene editing may hold key to preventing Down syndrome
Gene editing techniques may one day allow for the removal of the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome, early ...
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Adventures in the genetic time machine
Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?