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CRISPR-based Cellgorithm technology ushers in a new era of cell programming

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, today announced the publication of ...

Gene editing creates compact goldenberry plants suitable for large-scale farming

Goldenberries taste like a cross between pineapple and mango, pack the nutritional punch of a superfood, and are increasingly ...

Vertex's gene therapy shows promise in younger children with blood disorders

Vertex Pharmaceuticals said on Saturday its gene therapy helped children aged between 5 and 11 years with sickle cell disease ...

Hamilton O. Smith, Who Made a Biotech Breakthrough, Is Dead at 94

A Nobel laureate, he identified an enzyme that cuts DNA, laying the groundwork for milestones in scientific research and ...
Nature

‘Giant step forward’ for Huntington’s — the scientist behind the first gene therapy

On a video call in early September, Sarah Tabrizi first saw the data that she and other researchers studying Huntington’s ...

Scientists Have Discovered an Organism That Breaks Biology’s Golden Rule

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Exa-cel gene therapy may off effective cure for beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease in children younger than 12

Preliminary results from two trials of the gene therapy exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) suggest the therapy offers an ...

Teen Beats Deadly Leukemia With Life-Saving Gene-Edited Cell Therapy

A cutting-edge base-edited CAR T-cell therapy is opening a revolutionary new frontier for patients battling aggressive T-cell ...
Nature

This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...