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Blog / #womeninscience do cool research

October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 / Kayla Goforth /

CRISPR-Cas9 is a molecular tool used for genome editing. The discovery of CRISPR was by two women, who recently won a Nobel Prize for their research on genome editing.

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Blog / Gene Drive: The What, How, Why, and Whether We Should

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 / Nila Pazhayam /

Taking genome modifications to the population level – how it may help, and how it may hurt.

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Blog / CRISPR: The Teeny Tiny Molecular Scissors of Biology

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 / Eliza Thulson /

The world lately feels more than ever like something out of a science fiction novel. Here we dive into CRISPR, a technology designed and used to edit genomes.

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Blog / Your Guide to the CRISPR Babies

March 4, 2019April 2, 2019 / Kasey Skinner /

Imagine a future in which we can edit genes like a sentence in Microsoft Word. We could highlight, delete, and correct a section of a gene known to cause disease,…

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Blog / Putting the Brakes on CRISPR

August 14, 2018October 9, 2018 / Nicholas Martinez /

CRISPR-Cas9, more commonly referred to as CRISPR, has been one of the hottest terms in science over the last few years. For goodness sake, Jennifer Lopez is the executive producer…

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Blog / Move over, Mendel

May 2, 2015February 2, 2016 / Chris Givens /

Recently featured in Science, Valentino Gantz and Ethan Bier have developed a novel genome editing method that subverts traditional heritability. Termed the mutagenic chain reaction, this process  can insert new…

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