Genetic engineering

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Genetic engineering

Gene therapy for horses

Biologists from Moscow, Kazan and the UK have created an experimental gene therapy and cured a horse of lameness with its help.

20.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Controlled evolution

The term "genetically modified organism" implies that the genome of an object has been changed. How and why is it changed?

17.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Buy Arctic apples!

Arctic Apples, which do not change color in the air, will be available to buy in 400 supermarkets in the United States in November 2017.

17.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of Leber's amaurosis

The FDA Advisory Committee recommended approving a method of gene therapy for a disease that inevitably leads to complete blindness.

16.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of glaucoma

The CRISPR/Cas9 system was used to correct the mutation that causes glaucoma in mice, as well as in the culture of human retinal tissue cells.

12.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Instead of a condom

Scientists believe that their experiment opens up new prospects for the creation of a male "genetic contraceptive."

12.10.2017
Genetic engineering

How the "base editor" works

With the help of the "base editor" developed on the basis of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, the single-nucleotide substitution was corrected in a quarter of cases.

10.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Editing a single nucleotide

Chinese geneticists have eliminated the congenital disease beta-thalassemia in a human embryo by correcting an error in one "letter" of the beta-globin gene.

03.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Why does the embryo need Oct4?

American geneticists have disabled one of the genes responsible for the development of the human embryo to understand what role it plays in this process.

21.09.2017
Genetic engineering

Manic-depressive mice

Genetically modified mice have all the symptoms of MDP: depression in response to stress and manic behavior.

20.09.2017
Genetic engineering

White from purple

Japanese scientists by changing one gene with the help of the genome editor – the CRISPR-Cas9 system – turned purple ipomoea flowers into white.

20.09.2017
Genetic engineering

CAR-T: Obstacle Race

Novartis wins the race – last week the regulator approved the company's gene therapy for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

07.09.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of choroideremia

Treatment of progressive blindness involves virus-vector delivery of recombinant DNA developed for the synthesis of a functioning REP-1 gene.

07.09.2017
Genetic engineering

A new era in biomedicine

The appearance of the world's first T-cell CAR therapy heralds the beginning of a new era in the biotechnology industry and the management of oncological diseases.

06.09.2017
Genetic engineering

Another EteRNA

The newly released new version of the game offers its participants to create a new RNA molecule using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology.

04.09.2017
Genetic engineering

RNA targeting of Cas9

Scientists used the new method to treat RNA-associated diseases, for example, type I and II myotonic dystrophy and Huntington's disease.

04.09.2017