JD Supra

Federal Circuit Revives CRISPR-Cas9 Patent Priority Dispute

UC and Broad have been involved in two interferences at the patent office. Interference No. 106,115 was the second interference between UC and Broad over patent rights to CRISPR-Cas9 technology in ...
CNBC

CRISPR-based gene editing revolutionized medicine—what's next for the firm that helped develop it?

CRISPR-Cas 9 is a gene-editing tool that made it possible to rewrite any organism's genetic code and tackle genetic diseases more effectively. Known as genetic scissors, CRISPR identifies a DNA ...
Seeking Alpha

Crispr Therapeutics: Poised For A Major Turnaround

Crispr Therapeutics, a leader in CRISPR/Cas9 biotechnology, recently received FDA and EMA approval for Casgevy, the first CRISPR/Cas9-based treatment for TDT and SCD. The partnership with Vertex ...
New Atlas

Gene editing takes a major step toward ending daily cholesterol pills

A new CRISPR-based one-off procedure that lowers "bad" cholesterol has been approved to enter Phase I human trial. If ...
The Scientist

CRISPR Therapy Progress and Prospects

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins are core components of fast-evolving therapeutic gene editing tools. Scientists have used CRISPR ...

He Jiankui

He Jiankui, the scientist who claimed to create the first gene-edited babies using CRISPR, is one of the most influential ...
News Medical

Understanding CRISPR Therapy

CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is an advanced technology developed in 2012 that can be used to edit genes. It can be used to find specific DNA sequences inside ...
Phys.org

The first genetic editing in spiders with CRISPR‐Cas yields colorful silk

The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool to spiders. Following the genetic modification, the spiders ...
New Atlas

World’s first gene-edited spider produces red fluorescent silk

For years, the CRISPR-Cas9 genome technology has been reshaping genetic engineering, a precision tool to transform everything from agriculture to medicine. With its incredible efficiency, this ...
Science Daily

Scientists just made CRISPR three times more effective

Northwestern scientists have developed a new nanostructure that supercharges CRISPR’s ability to safely and efficiently enter cells, potentially unlocking its full power to treat genetic diseases. By ...
GEN

CRISPR-Cas9 Treatment of Rare Vascular Disease, MSMDS

Development of bespoke therapies has been a driving goal in medical research. This year, the announcement of the first patient treated with personalized CRISPR therapy, Baby KJ, highlights this ...