We've got the beat: Astronomers discover a distant galaxy with a pulse
Astronomers at Yale and Harvard have found a galaxy with a heartbeat—and they've taken its pulse.
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Researchers advance genome editing of blood stem cells
Genome editing techniques for blood stem cells just got better, thanks to a team of researchers at USC and Sangamo BioSciences.
Biotechnology
Nov 9, 2015
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Researchers identify potential alternative to CRISPR-Cas genome editing tools
An international team of CRISPR-Cas researchers has identified three new naturally-occurring systems that show potential for genome editing. The discovery and characterization of these systems is expected to further expand ...
Biotechnology
Oct 22, 2015
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Scientists discover new system for human genome editing
A team including the scientist who first harnessed the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 system for mammalian genome editing has now identified a different CRISPR system with the potential for even simpler and more precise genome ...
Biotechnology
Sep 25, 2015
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Researchers use DNA 'clews' to shuttle CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool into cells
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have for the first time created and used a nanoscale vehicle made of DNA to deliver a CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool into ...
Biotechnology
Aug 28, 2015
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Engineering a permanent solution to genetic diseases
In his mind, Basil Hubbard can already picture a new world of therapeutic treatments for millions of patients just over the horizon. It's a future in which diseases like muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and many others ...
Biotechnology
Aug 10, 2015
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New techniques improve specificity of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing tools
To overcome the off-target mutations that commonly occur with CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing methods, researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed two strategies that greatly improve ...
Biotechnology
Jul 20, 2015
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Predictive software can precisely identify most effective ways to target genes with gene editing mechanism CRISPR-Cas9
The remarkable ease and accuracy with which scientists can alter genomes using the CRISPR-Cas9 system has led to promising advances toward improving human health and the environment through genetic engineering. Cas9, a protein ...
Biotechnology
Jul 13, 2015
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Editing stem cell genes will "revolutionize" biomedical research
Applying a dramatically improved method for "editing" genes to human stem cells, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of neuroscience Su-Chun Zhang has shown a new way to silence genes in stem cells and their progeny ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 6, 2015
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Researchers edit plant DNA using mechanism evolved in bacteria
Researchers at the University of Georgia have used a gene editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas to modify the genome of a tree species for the first time. Their research, published recently in the early online edition of the journal ...
Biotechnology
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