Tag Archives: CRISPR/Cas9
On the Nature feature about the Sarafs, a rare disease, and time
Heidi Ledford has a tragic and powerful story published yesterday in Nature, about a team of scientists at the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology racing to develop a CRISPR treatment for Uditi Saraf, a young girl whose brain was … Continue reading
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Tagged CRISPR/Cas9, FENIB, FSSAI, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Ministry of AYUSH, Natelco, neuroserpin, rare diseases, Rema Nagarajan, Uditi Saraf
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Corrected: ‘Life’s Greatest Secret’ by Matthew Cobb
‘Life’s Greatest Secret’ focuses on those efforts to explore the DNA that were only a sideshow in ‘The Gene’ but possess intrigues of their own. Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology of science, biochemistry, CRISPR/Cas9, Francis Crick, genes, genetic modification, Heinrich Matthaei, Life's Greatest Secret, Marshall Nirenberg, Matthew Cobb, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene
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Awards week
I went into this year’s Nobel Prize Announcements Week a little confused about why I was excited. For me the prizes have always highlighted the recipients’ work, and that’s likelier than not a field of study I’ve probably never heard of … Continue reading
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Tagged CRISPR/Cas9, INO, multidisciplinarity, Nobel Prize, Sahitya Akademi, Svetlana Alexievich, Youyou Tu
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