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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: CRISPR rivals put patents aside to help in fight against Covid-19

03.03.2021

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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Coronavirus

Listen: J&J’s imminent vaccine data, CRISPR’s confusing boom, and navigating scientific misinformation

29.01.2021

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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First Opinion

Opinion: Mother Nature is not ‘the ultimate bioterrorist’

08.01.2021

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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Biotech / Pharma

Preliminary but ‘nothing short of great.’ New data on CRISPR treatment for blood diseases suggest cure is possible

05.12.2020

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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In the Lab

Lab tests show risks of using CRISPR gene editing on embryos

29.10.2020

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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In the Lab

‘A terrific choice’: George Church salutes fellow CRISPR pioneers’ historic Nobel win

07.10.2020

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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In the Lab

Two female CRISPR scientists make history, winning Nobel Prize in chemistry for genome-editing discovery

07.10.2020

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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In the Lab

Dust off the crystal ball: It’s time for STAT’s 2020 Nobel Prize predictions

02.10.2020

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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