In the course of optimizing key procedures of genome editing, researchers from the department of Developmental Biology / Physiology at the Center for Organismal Studies of Heidelberg University have succeeded in substantially ...
Biotechnology
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Researchers from the Center for Genome Engineering within the Institute for Basic Science developed a new gene-editing platform called transcription activator-like effector-linked deaminases, or TALED. TALEDs are base editors ...
Biotechnology
Apr 25, 2022
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Gene editing approaches promise to treat a range of diseases, but delivering editing agents to cells in animal models and humans safely and efficiently has proven challenging. Now, researchers led by a team at the Broad Institute ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2022
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Want to keep the riffraff out of the gene pool party? Sneak in and slam the gate before they arrive.
Biotechnology
Nov 11, 2021
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Targeted mutations to the genome can now be introduced by splitting specific mutator enzymes and then triggering them to reconstitute, according to research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. ...
Biochemistry
Oct 28, 2021
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A team of researchers from Verve Therapeutics and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a CRISPR gene-editing technique that lowered the levels of cholesterol in the blood of test ...
Biomolecular engineers at Rice University have found a C-worthy technique that dramatically enhances the accuracy of gene editing.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 15, 2020
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Gene editing technology is getting better and growing faster than ever before. New and improved base editors—an especially efficient and precise kind of genetic corrector—inch the tech closer to treating genetic diseases ...
Biotechnology
Jun 12, 2020
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Many genetic and breeding studies have shown that point mutations and indels (insertions and deletions) can alter elite traits in crop plants. Although nuclease-initiated homology-directed repair (HDR) can generate such changes, ...
Biotechnology
Mar 16, 2020
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With a new CRISPR gene-editing methodology, scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign inactivated one of the genes responsible for an inherited form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—a debilitating and ...
Biotechnology
Feb 24, 2020
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