Teen first in world to be cured of rare disease through gene editing treatment
Blood stem cells were enriched and treated with a gene editing product that targeted and corrected the mutation in the gene responsible for CGD. As a result, his white...
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Team has Used CRISPR to engineer custom bacteriophages that could treat drug-resistant infections
...a team has used a rare form of CRISPR to engineer custom bacteriophages, a development that could aid in the treatment of drug-resistant infections and allow...
Bacteriophages are viruses that kill harmful bacteria. Read more here: <a href="https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/medicine/divisions/idgph/research/center-innovative-phage-applications-and-therapeutics/patient-care/Pages/default.aspx" target="_new">UC San Diego - What is Phage Therapy?</a> - TGR Editor
Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer
A teenage girl's incurable cancer has been cleared from her body in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine. Base editing allows scientists to zoom to a...
FYI: Base editing is applied CRISPR-Cas9. See <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03536-x">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03536-x</a> for more. - TGR Editor
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