Sentences with phrase «study on gene editing»

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In February, the United Kingdom approved using the method on human embryos at the Francis Crick Institute in London, but only within a narrow capacity: Researchers can edit genes in non-viable human embryos for a limited period and only to study developmental biology related to in vitro fertilization.

An editorial posted online on 28 April says the journal's objective in publishing the study was «the sounding of an alarm to draw immediate attention to the urgent need to rein in applications of gene - editing technologies, especially in the human germ cells or embryos.»

He is Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), has been President of the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT), and has been appointed as expert on the «Human Gene Editing Study» of the US National Academies of Sciences and of Medicine, and on the Italian National Committee for Biosafety, Biotechnology and Life Sciences.

In the new study, Duke University researchers overcame several of these obstacles by using a non-pathogenic carrier called adeno - associated virus, or AAV, to deliver the gene - editing system.The paper appears on December 31, 2015 in Science.