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1st Knockout Human Embryos Made with CRISPR: My Take on the Pub

September 20, 2017 Paul Knoepfler 4

Scientist make knockout human embryos with CRISPR? Today we see a new Nature paper (Fogarty, et al.) on CRISPR “gene editing” of human embryos, this time from the UK from Kathy Niakan’s group. Niakan got UK permission about 18 months […]

New Herbert lab Nature paper reinforces mitochondrial replacement Achilles heel

June 8, 2016 Paul Knoepfler 1

Today a new Nature paper from Dr. Mary Herbert’s group in the UK has found a key problem with mitochondrial replacement therapy that fits with data from others. The goal of preventing mitochondrial disease using various kinds of genome transfer […]

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1st Knockout Human Embryos Made with CRISPR: My Take on the Pub

New Herbert lab Nature paper reinforces mitochondrial replacement Achilles heel