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Blindness treatment will insert algae gene into people's eyes

16 January 2018

Optogenetic techniques that use light to control nerve cells are being tried in people at last – and could lead to treatments for several types of blindness
Three piglets huddled together

CRISPR makes piglets that may be better organ donors for humans

10 August 2017

Organ transplants from pigs are a step closer, after the birth of piglets that have had the harmful viruses in their DNA inactivated using gene editing

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