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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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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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Israeli scientists inch closer to developing a genetic treatment to cure AIDS
The one time injection technique utilises type B white blood cells that would be genetically engine…
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Why 2022 could be the most crucial year yet for gene editing
These are Insider's biggest healthcare stories for December 21.
Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer,Leah Ro…
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Scientists hope to help Asian elephants fight climate change using woolly mammoth genes
Have you seen how artists, with the help of scientists, have imagined the woolly mammoths? If not…
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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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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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See the presentations that cutting-edge biotech companies have used to raise millions from top investors
From 64x Bio to Faeth Therapeutics, here are the presentations that biotechs used to win over inves…
Leah Rosenbaum
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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 Sean Parker-backed cancer trial that would use CRISPR in humans for the first time just got a critical approval
In the NIH's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee panel, panelists pushed back against financial conf…
Lydia Ramsey
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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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CRISPR, the gene-editing tech that's making headlines, explained in one graphic
CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. These are short sectio…
Dylan Roach,Tanya Lewis
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CRISPR, the fancy new technology that lets people edit genes, could have an unprecedented and horrific consequence
For example, the gene might get into a population you don't want it in. Say we tweaked a gene in mo…
Tanya Lewis
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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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Pharma giant Bayer is making a bet that one day we might be able to use stem cells to prevent cancer
Here's the idea: In healthy bodies, damaged and old cells are cleared out of our body as part of th…
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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These are some of the crazy things scientists did using gene editing in 2015
Scientists are already using gene editing to treat diseases in people, a form of gene therapy. In N…
Tanya Lewis
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This is the game-changing technology that was used to genetically modify a human embryo
Experts even think these types of changes could eventually help treat complex conditions with genet…