LA Times Dec 3, 2015  Melissa Healy An international conference on gene editing on Thursday left the door open to future use, in humans, of new techniques that alter an organism’s genetic architecture in ways that carry forward to future generations. With questions of safety, need and ethics still unanswered, the U.S. National Academies of […]

The Lancet  Dec 15, 2015  Rebecca Cooney, Editor Gene editing has swiftly become one of the most promising—and controversial—breakthroughs in genetic engineering. With the entrance of CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), a technique using  the Cas9 enzyme to cut strands of the genome at precisely targeted locations to insert, replace, or remove DNA, […]

MSUnites.com Nov 5, 2015 Overview: A new stem cell treatment has sent most of the MS patients who tried it into remission, halting the progression of the disease even several years afterwards. In a recent clinical study at the COloroda Blood Cancer Institute 24 patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) underwent a three month […]