Grading my twenty 2017 stem cell predictions
Each year I make a list of predictions for the year to come for the stem cell and regenerative medicine field. Then about a year later I grade myself on how I did as that year winds down. Here’s how […]
CRISPR human embryo
Review of Mitalipov paper CRISPR’ing human embryos: transformative work on the edge
In the same way perhaps that some excited relatives or parents-to-be both gush and worry about a baby before it is even born, our field has been transfixed for a week by the Mitalipov paper on CRISPR’ing human embryos even […]
Paper on 1st use of CRISPR in normal human embryos: problems remain
The first report of the use of CRISPR gene editing in normal human embryos was published today as a short paper from a team in China. There have been rumors for over a year that more CRISPR human embryo papers were […]
Interview with Fredrik Lanner who is CRISPR’ing healthy human embryos
In the past year there has been a great deal of attention given to the potential use of CRISPR-Cas9 for gene editing in human embryos. An important recent development, described in a new NPR article by Rob Stein, is the […]
Where are all the new CRISPR human embryo papers?
Last year I heard from several sources that there somewhere between 3-5 unpublished manuscripts reporting the use of CRISPR gene targeting in human embryos being shopped around at various journals in addition to the one that had been published. Since that […]