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Gene editing: beyond the hype

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Cutting edge’ is, for once, a truly apt description when it comes to gene editing – both because the field is pushing medicine into areas we might never have dreamed possible, and because these technologies involve literally cutting DNA at a specific point in the genome. Zinc fingers. That would just slow the whole field down.

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Logistics in Focus: Orchestrating the Challenges of Cell Therapy

Worldwide Clinical Trials

For example, once considered incurable and terminal, patients with sickle cell disease may reach new summits in their lives with gene editing technologies such as CRISPR to repair affected DNA and, in some cases, functionally cure the condition.

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Prime Medicine Gets FDA Okay for First Trial of Gene Editing Technique

BioSpace

The FDA has cleared a clinical trial of an ex vivo prime editing candidate in patients with a rare disease, Prime Medicine announced Monday. The technique taps CRISPR technology to rewrite defective genes without breaking DNA double helix strands.

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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

Camargo

It is a comprehensive term which encompasses a large variety of therapy products including viral and bacterial vectors, plasmid DNA, human gene editing technology, and patient-specific cellular gene therapy. Additionally, gene editing allows us either to remove or to modify harmful genes.

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Generating Over a Billion Cells with CRISPR for Next Generation Cell Therapies

XTalks

Now a common gene editing tool, the popularity of the CRISPR-Cas9 system has increased over the past decade. CRISPR is notable for engineering living cells, allowing scientists to edit, turn off, delete, or replace genes in a cell’s genome. Harnessing the Cellular Engineering Potential of CRISPR.

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STAT+: Muscular dystrophy patient who was first in line for a custom CRISPR therapy dies

STAT News

A man with muscular dystrophy who was first in line to receive an experimental gene editing therapy tailor made to treat the cause of his rare form of the disease has died. Terry had long been too old to participate in clinical trials of experimental therapies for the disease, which are often geared towards young boys.

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CRISPR pioneers Doudna and Charpentier claim Nobel chemistry prize

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Drs Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have won this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry in recognition of their work on the gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9. The technique introduces a break in a specific place within DNA that triggers a self-repair mechanism. million) Nobel Prize award. “In