Sentences with phrase «gene editing technology known»

To date, the program has brought three scientists from broad disciplines to the Institute to trigger innovation and collaboration in single - particle cryo - electron microscopy, three - dimensional genomic organization and the gene editing technology known as CRISPR.

When a team of Chinese scientists announced last spring that they had edited the genes of human embryos using the powerful new gene editing technology known as CRISPR / Cas9, the world suddenly discovered that the dystopian possibility of «designer babies» was no longer an unrealistic fantasy, but rather a technically achievable possibility that must be reckoned with.

The team is the first to demonstrate that HIV - 1 replication can be completely shut down and the virus eliminated from infected cells in animals with a powerful gene editing technology known as CRISPR / Cas9.

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The group's guidance follows calls for various bans on use of the technology known as CRISPR - Cas9, which has quickly become the preferred method of gene editing in research labs because of its ease of use compared with older techniques.

Research on a new «gene editing» technology known as CRISPR — which theoretically allows any cell or organism to have its genome altered — is advancing exponentially, with early research ongoing on human embryos created for that purpose.

The gene - editing technology known as CRISPR has spawned an increasingly unseemly brawl over who will reap the rewards

The new technology, known as a gene drive, is genetic engineering on an entirely new scale: It makes it possible not just to modify organisms in the laboratory, but to edit the genes of entire populations in the wild.

More and more scientists are using the powerful new gene - editing tool known as CRISPR / Cas9, a technology isolated from bacteria, that holds promise for new treatment of such genetic diseases as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy...

In fewer than five years, a gene - editing technology known as CRISPR has revolutionized research.

The news comes less than a year after the first reports of human - gene editing — published by Chinese scientists in the journal Protein and Cell — using the fantastic and at times troubling technology known as CRISPR.

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, also known as CRISPR, evokes a sense of unease in many people, especially since the term has become synonymous to gene editing technology.

Science magazine has unveiled its 2015 «Breakthrough of the Year» and the winner is a gene - editing technology that experts say will change life as we know it — potentially revolutionizing medicine, basic science, and agriculture.