gene editing

US Doctors Implant Pig Heart in Human in Medical First

The US Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency...

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Explained: How Does India’s Feluda COVID-19 Test Work?

Niranjana Rajalakshmi 28/10/2020

The test employs cutting-edge CRISPR-Cas9 technology to reduce the...

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Nobel Prize for CRISPR Honors Two Great Scientists – and Leaves Out Many Others

Marc Zimmer 13/10/2020

The decision to award the prize to Jennifer Doudna...

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A Quick Intro To This Year’s Nobel Prize Winners in the Sciences

The Wire Staff 08/10/2020

Eight scientists were awarded the three Nobel Prizes in...

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Here’s Why Many CRISPR/Cas9 Experiments Could Be Wrong – and How to Fix Them

Nicholas McCarty 21/12/2019

Researchers assumed that CRISPR was turning off genes. They...

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How Gene Editing Is Changing the World

Emily Anthes 11/11/2019

In 'Hacking the Code of Life', Nessa Carey explores...

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Were the Brains of China’s CRISPR Twins Inadvertently ‘Enhanced’?

The Wire Staff 23/02/2019

He Jiankui attempted to remove a gene called CCR5...