Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...
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CRISPR Technology Explained: The Science of Gene Editing, DNA Modification, and Genetic Engineering Ethics Uncovered

Discover how scientists are harnessing the power of CRISPR to precisely edit DNA, revolutionizing medicine and ethics as they rewrite the very code of life. Pixabay, PublicDomainPictures CRISPR ...
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After a decade, CRISPR gene editing is a 'revolution in progress.' What does the future hold?

Medical innovations typically take 17 years from the time a lightbulb goes off in a scientist's head until the first person benefits. But every once in a while, an idea is so powerful and so profound ...
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Big News in Genetics! Japanese Scientists Remove the Extra Chromosome Causing Down Syndrome

How does the CRISPR Down Syndrome breakthrough work to remove the extra chromosome 21? We are closer than ever to a world where a genetic condition affecting one in every 700 babies could be addressed ...
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Will CRISPR make sickle cell disease a thing of the past?

St. Georges Technical High School students using CRISPR in a Box. On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a sickle cell disease drug called Casgevy, co-developed by Vertex ...
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CRISPR’s Tricks: How Cas Enzymes Capture, Trim, and Integrate Foreign DNA

Owen T. Tuck, a graduate student in Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California. Owen T. Tuck, a graduate student in Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks ...
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Monster Animals: Does ‘Rampage’ Get the Science of CRISPR Right?

We here at STAT cover CRISPR a lot. But it’s not every day we get to cover Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The Rock and the genome-editing technology meet in a new movie, “Rampage,” coming out Friday.
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The Hopes And Hurdles Of CRISPR And Gene Editing

Scientists have long contemplated a future where genome editing could alter the building blocks of our world to help humans live longer, healthier lives. That dream is no longer a possibility, but a ...
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Crispr reveals a new way to defeat resistant lung cancer

Drug resistance has long turned some of the most advanced lung cancer therapies into temporary victories, with tumors ...
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You've heard of CRISPR, now meet its newer, savvier cousin CRISPR Prime

CRISPR, the revolutionary ability to snip out and alter genes with scissor-like precision, has exploded in popularity over the last few years and is generally seen as the standalone wizard of modern ...
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Researchers turn to CRISPR to unlock one of the trickiest diseases to treat: Alzheimer’s

When the genome-editing tool CRISPR is thought of as a potential medicine, the targets that first come to mind are diseases like sickle cell or other conditions caused by particular mutations. Use ...
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CRISPR unlocks a new way to defeat resistant lung cancer

Scientists used CRISPR to disable the NRF2 gene, restoring chemotherapy sensitivity in lung cancer cells and slowing tumor ...