gene editing

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. Adobe Stock / Freethink / Jacob Hege 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...

China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced