World's first successful pig-to-human kidney transplant
A genetically engineered pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a human recipient for the first time...
A genome-editing platform that uses an enzyme (Cas9) to make a double-stranded break at a specific location in the genome, directed by a guide RNA.
A genetically engineered pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a human recipient for the first time...
Genome editing has been used to successfully correct genetic defects in a mouse model of a fatal hereditary disease...
145 genes have been identified as key to maintaining genome stability, protection, repair, and preventing DNA damage...
by Dr Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin and 1 others
Dr Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin and Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin give an ethical analysis of germline genome editing to prevent genetic diseases based on Islamic legal maxims (Qawaid Fiqhiyyah)...
A single dose of a CRISPR-based gene therapy could cure inflammation in people affected by a rare condition that causes life-threatening swelling attacks, according to a new clinical trial...
Brain organoids developed from fetal tissue offer a new way to model brain diseases and aid in drug testing....
CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing can result in the unintended deletion of a region associated with cancer...
A CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease is one step closer to approval after an advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration met to review its safety...
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