Vernon NivenGenetics This Company Wants to Rewrite the Future of Genetic Disease WIRED - Megan Molteni Crispr’s potential for curing inherited disease has made headlines, including at WIRED, for years. ( Here, here, here, and here.) Finally, at least …
Vernon NivenWisconsin Golden State Killer admits murders, rapes for life in prison Associated PressSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gay Hardwick stood arm-in-arm with her husband to face a criminal dubbed the Golden State Killer and couldn't recognize the elderly man hunched in a wheelchair as the sadistic
Vernon NivenMedicine CRISPR base editing slashes cholesterol levels in monkeys - STAT statnews.com - By Juliet Isselbacher A form of CRISPR widely expected to be safer and possibly more effective that the original has aced its first substantive test. When CRISPR “base …
Vernon NivenPublic Health Ten recommendations for supporting open pathogen genomic analysis in public health nature.com - Allison Black, Duncan R. MacCannell, Thomas R. Sibley, Trevor Bedford Increasingly, public-health agencies are using pathogen genomic sequence data to support surveillance and epidemiological investigations. As access …
Vernon NivenMedicine Three people with inherited diseases successfully treated with CRISPR newscientist.com - By Michael Le Page Two people with beta thalassaemia and one with sickle cell disease no longer require blood transfusions, which are normally used to treat severe …
