Gene therapy

Delivering genetic material as treatment – vectors, targeting, and emerging ways to control it.

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Darpa Generative Optogenetics

Generative Optogenetics: When Light Becomes Code and Cells Become Computers

DARPA has quietly launched what may be one of the most audacious bioengineering programs of the decade—and possibly of the century, called the Generative Optogenetics...

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Nvidia Helps Researchers with Genetic Engineering

New Technique Enables Precise Location of gene-editing Events Inside Intact Tissue

Historically, there has been a trade-off between resolution (single cell) and context (spatial/tissue). Many gene-editing detection methods work on dissociated cells (losing spatial context) or...

Editing Tools

Mechanisms of RNA Modifications Determination Using SigRM

Researchers affiliated with Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University have developed SigRM, a pioneering instrument anticipated to transform the investigation of gene expression and regulation. This technology utilises...

Biotechnology

New Eukaryotic Genome-Editing Protein Shows Potential for Future of Gene Editing

The new breakthrough and structural study of Fanzor2 by the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital describes a versatile gene-editing tool that potentially can work even...

Gene therapy

CREME’s AI-Powered Virtual Lab Shows Potential for Real World Therapeutics

CREME is an AI-powered virtual laboratory simulating gene activity changes developed by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which provides large-scale genetic research and shows new...

AI in Research

Next-Generation Genome Editing: Scientists Discover Powerful New RNA-Guided System

A team of researchers at the Arc Institute have developed an RNA-guided system that engineers precise, programmable DNA recombination. It is a much-needed, more versatile...

Gene therapy
telomeres

BioViva’s CEO Claims to Have Longer Telomeres After Gene Therapy

BioViva reported last week that the company’s CEO, Elizabeth Parrish, successfully reversed biological ageing after being treated with the biotech’s therapies. The Seattle-based company confirmed that Parrish...

Bioengineering

Genome Editing Cures Muscular Dystrophy in Mice

Researchers from Duke University have used the CRISPR technology to cure Duchenne muscular dystrophy in a mouse. It is the first time that the gene editing...

Biomedicine