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
Gene therapy
Delivering genetic material as treatment – vectors, targeting, and emerging ways to control it.
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CEO Tries DIY Gene Therapy Against Aging
Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of biotech startup BioViva, declared in the website Reddit having undergone an anti-aging gene therapy in a secret location in Latin America, dodging...
Bioengineering
CRISPR/CPF1: New Simpler CRISPR Protein May Cut Patent Fights Short
New CRISPR discovered by original CRISPR/Cas9 discovery team promises simpler and more flexible gene editing with fewer legal tangles. Broad Institute Researchers at Massachusetts Institute...
Bioengineering
AMSBIO Expands Range of Adeno-associated Virus Services
AMSBIO has introduced an expanded range of Adeno-associated virus (AAV) cloning and packaging services. AAV is a small (20 nm), replication-defective, nonenveloped, non-pathogenic virus which infects...
Biotechnology
Illumina Launches Helix, App Store for Genetic Analysis
Illumina announced formation of a customer focused company that seeks to provide affordable sequencing and analysis tools marketplace through third party providers at affordable costs....
Apps
New technology to make gRNA libraries for CRISPR/Cas9
A research team from University of California at Berkeley has developed a technique that makes gene editing much easier and cheaper. Rebecca Heald has directed...
Bioengineering
A New Software to Improve CRISPR/Cas9 Targeting
Scientists from Harvard and University of California have designed an online tool to optimize CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 targeting. The researchers compared...
Apps
A safer micro-RNA Guided Gene Therapy
Researchers from Dankook University in Korea have found a new method of introducing transgenes with therapeutic purposes. The study, published in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, describes how targeting the passenger strand...
Biomedicine