New CRISPR genome-editing tool promises to do what original CRISPR systems have struggled to achieve: insert entire genes into human DNA 🧬. It could pave the way for gene-correction therapies that would be given once, and work regardless of the specific mutation causing an individual’s disease 💉.
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Nature
Powerful CRISPR system inserts whole gene into human DNA
Nature - ‘Directed’ evolution in the laboratory creates an editing tool that outperforms classic CRISPR systems.
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Births of eight healthy children show promise of mitochondrial replacement therapy 👶✨ | ‘Three-parent IVF’ technique can spare newborns from sometimes-fatal diseases 🏥💖
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STAT
Births of eight healthy children show promise of mitochondrial replacement therapy
A pioneering reproductive technology reduced the risk of children inheriting disease-causing mutations in mitochondria, researchers reported.
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Scientists have shown that a single dose injection of DNA genetic instructions can produce weight loss and blood glucose control in mouse models that lasts up to 10 times as long as weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. This could eliminate the need for repeated dosing.
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The Wistar Institute
Wistar Scientists Develop Single-Dose DNA Method for Delivering Long-acting Weight Loss and Diabetes Drugs
Wistar Scientists Develop Single-Dose DNA Method for Delivering Long-acting Weight Loss and Diabetes Drugs Press Releases
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