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Turning off a particular gene prevented or alleviated chronic pain in mice. The results could lead to an alternative to opioids for treating chronic pain. Opioids remain the standard of care for many cases of chronic pain. While they are often the best option available, they also have drawbacks that make them less than ideal. …
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany, and Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA “for the development of a method for genome editing.” Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code …
Systems such as CRISPR Cas9 gene editing help scientists treat genetic disease, but these systems also have a wide range of possible uses in synthetic biology as well. ETH Zurich research have used these tools to build functional biocomputers inside human cells. Humans and all living organisms can be thought of as nature’s computers because …
Over 80% of new CRISPR users were found to be conducting gene editing for the first time in a survey of scientist and researchers about CRISPR trends and experimentation conducted by Synthego a provider of genome engineering solutions. 654 people in the scientific community were surveyed in regards to future CRISPR research, ranging from executives …
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing systems are very promising for their potential to treat diseases caused by gene irregularities, off target effects threaten to delay its development. University of Texas scientists are proposing replacing Cas9 protein with Cas12a may address CRISPR’s shortcomings, as published in the journal Molecular Cell. The Cas9 protein can be considered the scalpel …