by rss feed | Mar 23, 2025 | Chinese CRISPR biotechs, CRISPR, MSCs for Alzheimer's, News Feeds, weekly reads
Chinese CRISPR research continues to grow and this includes interesting CRISPR biotech firms. Some here in the U.S. worry that American gene editing firms could be lagging behind. Especially over the past year, investors and even some scientists have voiced...
by rss feed | Nov 19, 2023 | Casgevy, CRISPR, News Feeds, Verve Therapeutics, weekly reads
Some folks can view data from early, small clinical trials too skeptically or overly enthusiastically, and maybe that’s going on with some preliminary results from Verve Therapeutics. Good news? Bad news? I’m going to start with two articles about the same...
by rss feed | Sep 10, 2023 | CRISPR, CRISPR sickle cell, News Feeds, weekly reads
CRISPR gene editing has made rapid progress heading from bench to bedside. Perhaps the fastest has been its progress toward clinical use to combat sickle cell disease. We’ll start with a new paper on one major effort here. CRISPR gene editing. This process often...
by rss feed | Mar 12, 2023 | CRISPR, News Feeds, weekly reads
Where do things stand with potential applications of CRISPR and other gene editing technologies in patients? Overall, things are looking very positive. CRISPR human trials This week the third big international human genome editing meeting took place in London. The...
by rss feed | Mar 5, 2023 | base-editing, CRISPR, human CRISPR, News Feeds, weekly reads
It’s funny how sometimes there are many new articles about one general topic like this week with heritable (and somatic) human CRISPR gene editing and related tech. There are clear reasons for optimism in the somatic arena given advancing trials. Germline...
by rss feed | Jan 1, 2023 | CRISPR, News Feeds, weekly reads
I tend to perhaps over-focus on human CRISPR or gene editing, but other applications including in agriculture are definitely going to be huge. CRISPR in agriculture One that I’ve been following for a long time is the use of CRISPR to prevent cows from growing...
