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Scientists Have Successfully Used CRISPR Gene Editing Technology To Create A Spider With Glowing Red Silk
In addition, some species of spider are able to create silk that is the stronger than Kevlar and has many practical uses ...
Taconic Biosciences Enters Into an Exclusive License Agreement With Helmholtz Munich to Expand Its CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing Services
Taconic Biosciences has acquired the exclusive rights to a patented CRISPR-based gene editing technology for biomedical ...
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How gene editing can help today’s endangered species
A legal scholar with a Ph.D. in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals that ...
CRISPR cuts gene from head and neck cancers through direct injection—50% of tumors eliminated in animal models
Researchers from Tel Aviv University utilized CRISPR to cut a single gene from cancer cells of head and neck tumors—and ...
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India's First Gene-Edited Sheep: A Biotech Breakthrough
Researchers at SKUAST have achieved India's first gene-edited sheep using CRISPR-Cas9 technology. This breakthrough in animal ...
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How Cannibalistic Tadpoles Could Curb Invasive Cane Toads
Scientists used gene-editing technology to create “Peter Pan” tadpoles that would eat the eggs of Australia’s cane toads—and ...
Is Colossal Biosciences the Real-Life Jurassic Park?
When you hear about a company actively working to bring back extinct animals using genetic science, your mind probably jumps ...
Biologists Engineer Spiders to Spin Glowing Red Silk
CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful gene editing system that has revolutionized our ability to treat disease and probe the human genome. CRISPR has been used to edit the genomes of animals, plants, and microbes ...
From birth to gene-edited in 6 months: Custom therapy breaks speed limits
The researchers described the unprecedented speed of the oversight steps as being "through alternative procedures." In month ...