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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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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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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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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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How did we manage to deal with COVID-19 so quickly, but the common cold still remains a persisting problem?
Despite rapid COVID-19 vaccine development, curing the common cold remains challenging due to many …
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As gene-editing moves mainstream, a pioneer in the field is testing whether it could prevent Alzheimer's
Scientist David Liu has developed two ways to edit human DNA. He's testing whether they can be used…
Allison DeAngelis
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Wearables for plants, bacteria eating viruses, and 8 technologies in 2023 that can change the future
The World Economic Forum has announced ten breakthrough technologies set to change the world over t…
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Saliva-based smartphone platform built for rapid COVID-19 testing
Scientists have developed a portable saliva-based smartphone platform for rapid Covid-19 testing th…
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A scientist who genetically edited babies was just sentenced to 3 years in prison. Here's how he did it and why scientists around the world are outraged.
The editing of human embryos raises a whole host of ethical questions that led to outrage from the …
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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10 healthcare transformers shared the biggest misconceptions about their industry, from drug prices to psychedelics
Crispr's agricultural appeal is straightforward: it's cheaper and easier than traditional breeding …
Lydia Ramsey,Emma Court,Erin …
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 – Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna win the prestigious award for genome editing
The winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry are Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna…
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UnitedHealth's big bet on the business of going to the doctor
These are Insider's biggest healthcare stories for the week ending April 23.
Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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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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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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Your burger habit could be threatened by weather chaos - but gene editing could help us save cows and avoid 'mass famine'
Last February, Chinese researchers used CRISPR to create cows that are better protected from tuberc…
Erin Brodwin
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Chocolate is on track to go extinct in 40 years
The research lab she oversees at UC Berkeley is called the Innovative Genomics Institute. Many of t…
Erin Brodwin
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A legal storm is threatening a startup backed by Bill Gates that wants to edit people's genes by 2017
In December of 2015, the Berkeley team filed what's known as an "interference proceeding." This is …
Tanya Lewis
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The fight over a technology that could be used to edit human genes by 2017 just took a big step forward
In a statement, the Institute's representatives said: "Given that the underlying facts have not cha…