Paul Blakeley

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

February 1, 2021 / By / 4 Comments
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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 ago to CRISPR healthy human embryos so they’ve been hard at work since. Because Fredrik …

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New Herbert lab Nature paper reinforces mitochondrial replacement Achilles heel

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
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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 technologies is a noble one, but mitochondrial replacement therapy has faced a number of technological …

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