The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
Last year, researchers claimed the gene-editing method had accuracy issues, but a new whole-genome sequencing analysis by the same team finds otherwise.
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xCas9 enables more precisely targeted gene editing.
Researchers have developed a variety of techniques to detect when CRISPR misses the mark.
US researchers could become the first outside China to use the gene-editing technique in the clinic.
The gene-editing tool was effective in disabling a defective gene responsible for some forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The first industry-sponsored CRISPR therapy is slated to be tested in humans in 2018.
Combining gene editing and stem-cell induction improves efficiency of functional genetic analyses.
Simultaneous exposure to reprogramming and gene-editing plasmids efficiently produces edited pluripotent colonies.
Professionals in the genetics field generally support editing the genomes of somatic cells, mirroring public opinion, but diverge from nonexperts when it comes to germline editing.
In lab populations of genetically engineered mosquitoes, mutations arose that blocked the gene drive’s spread and restored female fertility.
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