Núria Montserrat: “The Enviroment Is Fundamental for Success”
Labcritics presents an interview with Núria Montserrrat, Junior Group Leader at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia. The talented young woman shares with us her...
Biotechnology
Genome Editing
CRISPR and the wider editing toolkit – delivery, specificity, and the systems engineered to make edits safer and more precise.
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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
PITCh: An Alternative Use of TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9
Researchers from Hiroshima University have presented a new gene insertion method called Precise Integration into Target Chromosome (PITCh). The method uses existent gene editing technologies more effectively. The...
Basic Research
Illumina Accelerates Four Selected Startups
Illumina has announced the winners of the third round of its accelerator program. The genomics company will invest in four biotech startups that work on nutrition, synthetic biology, the skin microbiome...
Bioinformatics
DNA-In® from AMSBIO, an Optimized CRISPR Reagent
AMSBIO has launched a new transfection reagent that facilitates the delivery of large plasmids for gene editing inside cells that are particularly difficult to transfect...
Bioengineering
Switching off 20000 Genes to Identify the Essential Ones
Scientists from the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Centre have identified the minimum set of human genes necessary for survival. Using the CRISPR technology, the researchers switched...
Bioengineering
International Summit on Human Gene Editing
Scientists from all over the world will gather between today and Thursday in the International Summit on Gene Editing celebrated in Washington, D.C. The experts will discuss...
Events
Robotic Lab Offers Now CRISPR Gene Editing
The robotic laboratory Transcriptic will add CRISPR gene editing to its services. Apart from the wet lab part of the job, Transcriptic offers CRISPR library...
Bioengineering