Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease

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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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 ...
EurekAlert!

Turbocharging CRISPR to understand how the immune system fights cancer

Over the past two decades, the immune system has attracted increasing attention for its role in fighting cancer. As researchers have learned more and more about the cancer-immune system interplay, ...
Technical

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 ...
Ars Technica

FDA approves first CRISPR therapy—here’s how it works against sickle cell

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved two gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease, one of the which is the first CRISPR/Cas9-based treatment to win regulatory approval in the US. The ...
KQED

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.
New Scientist

CRISPR could disable and cure HIV, suggests promising lab experiment

A new way to eradicate HIV from the body could one day be turned into a cure for infection by this virus, although it hasn’t yet been shown to work in people. The strategy uses a relatively recent ...
NPR

CRISPR gene-editing works to reduce high cholesterol in a new study

A single infusion of an experimental gene-editing drug appears safe and effective for cutting cholesterol, possibly for life, according to a small early study released Saturday. The study, which ...
Yahoo

Illumina, CRISPR-pioneer Broad Institute to work on new gene sequencing kits

FILE PHOTO: A sign at the front entrance to the global headquarters of Illumina is pictured in San Diego, California (Reuters) - Illumina said on Tuesday it has partnered with the Broad Institute to ...