by rss feed | Jun 4, 2025 | biotechs, Cathy Tie, gene editing, How to Build a Dragon, Josie Zayner, Los Angeles Project, News Feeds
I have been reading up on something called the Los Angeles Project that involves gene editing embryos to try to make new animals. Biohacker Josie Zayner and Cathy Tie are the founders. They even have aspirations to make dragons and unicorns with CRISPR. That resonated...
by rss feed | Jul 28, 2024 | click editing, gene editing, News Feeds, weekly reads
Gene editing continues to advance both in the clinic trial arena and at more basic science levels including a report on a new approach called click editing. The two gene editing papers below highlight the variety of tools now available. Gene Editing papers including...
by rss feed | Nov 22, 2022 | CRISPR, CRISPR sickle cell, CRISPR therapy, gene editing, Informational, News Feeds
When I first heard of CRISPR gene editing I was excited for my lab to try it out, but it seemed a long way from the field having even one CRISPR therapy available to treat human disease. In the Knoepfler lab, we study genetic and genomic programming in human...
by rss feed | Feb 15, 2021 | Alysson Muotri, Blog, brain, brain organoids, gene editing, Muotri, News Feeds, organoids, sexy science
Organoids and especially brain organoids, which are made from pluripotent stem cells, are one of the most interesting developmental biology technologies of the last half a dozen or so years. Still some folks can’t help but get carried away when thinking about...
by rss feed | Jan 10, 2021 | base-editing, gene editing, gene therapy, News Feeds, progeria, weekly reads
The paper of the week reports using base-editing, a kind of gene-editing, to reverse mutations associated with rapid aging syndromes, generally called progeria, but there are a lot of other interesting pubs to recommend for reading this week. I go over it all in this...
by rss feed | Jan 10, 2021 | base-editing, gene editing, gene therapy, News Feeds, progeria, weekly reads
The paper of the week reports using base-editing, a kind of gene-editing, to reverse mutations associated with rapid aging syndromes, generally called progeria, but there are a lot of other interesting pubs to recommend for reading this week. I go over it all in this...
