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It was huge news earlier this year: the first patient in the world, an infant, was successfully treated with a CRISPR gene editing therapy personalized to his genetic mutation. “Baby KJ” was diagnosed with a rare and dangerous metabolic disease shortly after his birth. Within a ...
There can be no doubt that CRISPR/Cas9 technology has been a breakthrough for the genome-editing field and the greater scientific community. In 2014, we wrote a blog post on CRISPR’s potential for correcting monogenetic diseases. Now, almost 10 years later, CRISPR’s potential ...
This post was originally written in 2014 by Kendall Morgan and updated in 2022 by Lucie Wilson. Lucie is an Addgene co-op from Northeastern University. There can be no doubt that CRISPR/Cas9 technology has been a breakthrough for the genome-editing field. It has the possibility ...
Note: After this blog was published, a bioRxiv preprint that questions the conclusion of inter-homologue recombination was released. This blog has not been updated in response to this paper. Any hint of CRISPR editing in human embryos has been met with a storm of media coverage. ...
Over 25 million people worldwide are currently infected with the lentivirus HIV-1. Today, HIV-1 can be controlled with antiviral therapies such that the virus is undetectable in the blood. But the virus doesn’t completely disappear; it just hides in latently infected cells. To ...
The crisis of antibiotic resistance is upon us, and the world is unprepared. Each year in the United States, two million people will be infected by antibiotic resistant bacteria. Even when researchers develop new antibiotics, the onset of resistance is swift, as few as five ...
Having seen CRISPR’s success in basic research, researchers are eager to apply it in a clinical setting. CRISPR is often used for animal germline modification, to repair or add in disease-causing mutations, but, until recently it hadn’t been used to treat disease postnatally. ...
