crispr
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The Tasmanian Tiger Could Be Brought Back From Extinction Thanks to Melbourne Scientists
The University of Melbourne has partnered with a genetic engineering company to bring the Tasmanian Tiger back from the dead.
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Woolly Mammoth CRISPR Hybrids Could Exist By 2027
CRISPR startup Colossal has some very lofty goals for the next four to six years.
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CRISPR Can Help Combat the Troubling Immune Response Against Gene Therapy
One of the major challenges facing gene therapy – a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes with healthy ones – is that it is difficult to safely deliver therapeutic genes to patients without the immune system destroying the gene, and the vehicle carrying it, which can trigger life-threatening widespread inflammation. Three…
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CRISPR Scientist Gets Three Years Of Jail Time For Creating Gene-Edited Babies
Disgraced Chinese scientist He Jiankui has been sentenced to three years in jail for creating the world’s first genetically modified human babies.