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Doctors use gene-editing to try and cure blindness for the very first time
It’s too early to determine whether the treatment is working or not. The doctors estimate that…
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Intellia Therapeutics soars 63% after its gene-editing CRISPR therapy shows success in first human trials
Intellia partnered with Regeneron in 2016 to advance the CRISPR technology for in vivo therapeutic …
Matthew Fox
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Cathie Wood's Ark ETFs are surging on big gains in CRISPR gene-editing stocks following the success of first human trials
Ark Invest's Cathie Wood said last year that the next "FANG" stocks would likely come from the gene…
Matthew Fox
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We'll be eating the first Crispr'd foods within 5 years, according to a geneticist who helped invent the blockbuster gene-editing tool
Back in 2016, researchers at Penn State used Crispr to make mushrooms that don't brown. Last spring…
Erin Brodwin
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For the first time, the USDA said it won't subject a crop edited with controversial gene-editing tool CRISPR to the same rules as GMOs
"Since its 2013 demonstration as a genome editing tool in Arabidopsis and tobacco - two widely used…
Erin Brodwin
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Intellia CEO: There won't be a 'next CRISPR'
CRISPR-Cas9 is a tool that that's often described as a kind of genetic scissors. It allows scientis…
Lydia Ramsey
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A major gene-editing company just inked a $335-million deal with Bayer
In October, CRISPR Therapeutics made a $105 million deal with Vertex Pharmaceutials, a partnership …
Lydia Ramsey
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A troubling link has been found between a cutting-edge gene-editing technology and cancer - and it's sending biotech stocks tumbling
The CEO of CRISPR Therapeutics said in a comment to STAT News that while the results are plausible,…
Charlotte Hu
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A blockbuster gene-editing tool just got one step closer to overtaking GMOs
Those companies include small ventures like Synthego, a Silicon Valley-based startup that aims to i…
Erin Brodwin
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Silicon Valley startups are experimenting with gene-editing tool Crispr to help grow chicken, beef, and pork in labs - and to upend a $200 billion industry
Several bespoke food and agricultural organizations are interested in resurrecting ancient animal s…
Erin Brodwin
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A medical diagnostics startup that wants to use CRISPR technology to detect diseases just raised $23 million in venture funding
Martin said that these guide-RNAs can be programmed to find disease-specific RNA or DNA sequences. …
Charlotte Hu
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The world's 4th-largest chemical giant wants to genetically modify corn to create a new super crop in the next 5 years
This could be good news given Americans' hefty - though scientifically unfounded - opposition to GM…
Erin Brodwin
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A blockbuster gene-editing tool has been 'linked' to cancer - here's how worried you should be
Earlier this week, reports linking the blockbuster gene-editing tool CRISPR to cancer in two stud…
Erin Brodwin
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ICMR's regional centre develops technology that can test for tuberculosis in just Rupees 35!
The 'A CRISPR case-based TB detection system' is light, portable and can test over 1,500 samples in…
PTI
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Wall Street just freaked out about a potential hiccup to a revolutionary gene editing technology - but it's not as bad as it seems
CRISPR Therapeutics chief scientific officer Dr. Bill Lundberg told Business Insider that the hope …
Lydia Ramsey
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This startup wants to start using controversial CRISPR gene-editing technology in people by 2017
Many diseases, like Huntington's Disease and Cystic Fibrosis (CF), are caused by small tweaks, or m…
Lydia Ramsey
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A revolutionary gene-editing technology is on track to be a $10 billion market by 2025
CRISPR, short for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats," is a revolutionary t…
Lydia Ramsey
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Scientists just got a step closer to treating incurable diseases using a revolutionary gene-editing tool
Getting to the point when we can safely and accurately edit genes to treat Huntington's disease wit…
Kevin Loria
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Anyone could theoretically set up a lab able to genetically modify human embryos for less than $2,000
The Sun Yat-sen University group tried to edit the DNA of 86 embryos (all nonviable). Of the 71 tha…
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Editas surges 50% as ARK founder Cathie Wood sees genomic stocks driving returns for the next 5 years
Behind Tesla, the third largest holding in the ARKK ETF is CRISPR Therapeutics, a gene editing comp…