https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alabama-woman-experimental-pig-kidney-transplant/
HealthWatch
Alabama woman doing well after gene-edited pig kidney transplant: "It's like a new beginning"
December 17, 2024 / 10:55 AM EST / CBS/AP
A 53-year-old Alabama woman is now free from years of...
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/22/1096458/crispr-gene-editing-babies-evolution/
Biotechnology and health
Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution
CRISPR will get easier and easier to administer. What does that mean for the future of our...
https://www.freethink.com/science/gene-edited-tomatoes
New CRISPR tomatoes need less watering
Knocking out one gene was all it took to make tomatoes lose less water but grow just as big.
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By Kristin Houser
February 4, 2024
Fields
AGRICULTURE
CRISPR...
https://www.freethink.com/health/pig-liver
Pig liver filters blood outside a person’s body for 72 hours
The CRISPR’d organs could potentially keep people alive while they wait for liver transplants.
Adobe Stock / Freethink / Jacob Hege
By Kristin Houser
January 23, 2024
Fields
CRISPR...
https://www.freethink.com/health/prime-editing
Revamped CRISPR restores vision in blind mice
The key was developing a better way to get the gene editor into cells.
Bmouzon / Wikimedia Commons / Nat Biotechnol / Freethink
By Kristin Houser
January 15, 2024
Fields
CRISPR
Anew delivery...
https://www.freethink.com/health/crispr-treatment-hereditary-angioedema
One-shot CRISPR treatment for inherited disease aces first human trial
Participants saw a 95% reduction in attacks soon after receiving the therapy.
Adobe Stock / ZayNyi / molekuul.be / Freethink / Jacob Hege
By Kristin...
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/04/1084209/vertex-exacel-approval-gene-editing-sickle-cell-disease-patient/
I received the new gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease. It changed my life.
As a patient enrolled in a clinical trial for Vertex’s new exa-cel treatment, I was among the...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03797-7
NEWS
07 December 2023
Landmark approval of the first CRISPR therapy paves the way for treatments based on more efficient and more precise genome editors.
By
Heidi Ledford
More versatile genome editors are supplanting the CRISPR-Cas9...
https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-gene-therapy-approved-sickle-cell-casgevy/
EMILY MULLIN
SCIENCE
NOV 16, 2023 10:32 AM
The First Crispr Medicine Just Got Approved
The gene-editing therapy, called Casgevy, uses Crispr to prevent debilitating pain in patients with sickle cell disease. It also...
https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-gene-therapy-approved-sickle-cell-casgevy/
EMILY MULLIN
SCIENCE
NOV 16, 2023 10:32 AM
The First Crispr Medicine Just Got Approved
The gene-editing therapy, called Casgevy, uses Crispr to prevent debilitating pain in patients with sickle cell disease. It also...
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/crispr-gene-editing-shown-to-permanently-lower-high-cholesterol/
Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower high cholesterolFolks with hereditary high cholesterol would be able avoid lifelong medication.EMILY MULLIN, WIRED.COM - Wednesday at undefined...
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