Using new gene
editing techniques like CRISPR / Cas9 to treat genetic diseases is fine under certain conditions, but it should not be used to enhance people, a panel of experts says.
Not exact matches
Less clear - cut are nascent
techniques like gene
editing, or surgical procedures such a head transplants.
It's important to bear in mind that it will take a long time to hone these
techniques, which are still early on in the drug development pipeline - and things
like genome
editing will take decades to come to fruition for HD patients.
I love the
editing technique employed here... the film feels
like a silent short from the 1920s but also very contemporary.
A patent application has been filed and testing is underway on the protein — called HT - TALENs (short for HIV - targeted transcription activator -
like effector nucleases)-- which uses a newly developed gene -
editing technique to rid the body's cells of the immunodeficiency virus before it has a chance to multiply and possibly develop into AIDS.
There are a number of restrictions on exactly how a
technique like CRISPR can be used, which include parameters
like only using it to
edit a genetically inherited disease.
Gance uses
techniques not much associated with silent film,
like a hand - held camera, multiple superimpositions, split split screen, rapid - fire
editing and flashbacks to rivet the audience's attention and bring history to vivid life.
I wanted to try to use narrative
techniques and shoot it,
edit it, and produce it in a way that felt
like you have a front row seat to the journey of our characters.
Director Paul McGuigan, who so far has specialized in ultra-cool, ultra-modern flicks
like The Acid House and Gangster No. 1, immerses himself almost completely in crude, muddy 14th century life, save for a few present - day
editing techniques that jar the action from time to time.
The don't make movies
like this anymore and that's a shame, because even though it's a film essentially about «sport killing»; there is a poetry to it that I think is lacking in modern films; mainly because of current
editing techniques.
What attracted critical minds
like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt
technique that refuses the conventions of classical
editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions
like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.
Films
like Jean - Luc Godard's Breathless, Agnes Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7, and Alain Resnais» Last Year at Marienbad frequently employ filmic
techniques that place the viewer in a heady, alienated state of mind; think of the discontinuity
editing employed in Breathless, the gritty cinema vérité style of Cléo, or the trance - inducing tracking shots in Marienbad.
Click To TweetIn my own practice, substantive
editing is
like a line
edit that dips into the elements of narrative
technique I typically include in a developmental
edit, such as point of view and narrative distance, dialogue tags and beats, the balance of showing vs. telling, and filtering.
This type of
editing also looks at your narrative
technique — things
like point of view, pacing, transitions, hooks, and dialogue tags and beats.
Like Robert Rauschenberg, Polke refused to
edit anything out of his paintings or to put limits on the materials or
techniques he used.