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In this week’s episode of STAT’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I talk with journalist, historian, and author Walter Isaacson about his First Opinion, “CRISPR rivals put patents aside to help in …
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In early January 2020, Feng Zhang, a gene-editing researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, started getting emails written in Chinese about a newly identified coronavirus that was …
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When are we getting more Covid-19 vaccine data? Is CRISPR having a dot-com moment? And how to separate disinformation from healthy dissent? We discuss all that and more this week …
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Despite the menacing track record of emerging pathogens, “Mother Nature is the world’s worst bioterrorist,” a long-overused catchphrase of scientists and public health professionals, is in urgent need of retirement. …
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Ten patients treated with a CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy for the inherited blood disorders sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia have shown a consistent and sustained response with manageable side effects, according …
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A lab experiment aimed at fixing defective DNA in human embryos shows what can go wrong with this type of gene editing and why leading scientists say it’s too unsafe …
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George Church, who is in the thick of both the science and the business of editing genomes with the now Nobel-Prize-winning technology called CRISPR, warmly greeted Wednesday’s award in chemistry …
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Take that, U.S. legal system. In a decision that reflects the views of many (but far from all) experts on genome editing, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday …
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The mistake Nobel Prize prognosticators — yours truly included — make is to look through the greatest hits of biochemistry, biology, and medicine (the areas STAT covers) — nuclear hormone …
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