CRISPR-edited trees reduce the energy and water required to make paper
13 July 2023
Genetically editing poplar trees reduces the resources required to harvest their wood's cellulose, which makes up paper
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The high cost of CRISPR therapy will stop it getting to most patients
5 July 2023
The world’s first CRISPR therapy may be approved soon, but sadly it is unlikely to be affordable for hundreds of thousands of people whose pain it could end
Gene-edited rice may be able to grow on Mars
15 March 2023
Martian soil is generally poor for growing plants, but researchers have used CRISPR to create gene-edited rice that might be able to germinate and grow despite the hostile habitat
Sickle cell disease is now curable, but the treatment is unaffordable
8 March 2023
CRISPR gene editing has made it possible to cure sickle cell disease, which affects millions worldwide, but most people with the condition won't be able to afford the cost of the treatment
Gene-edited wheat reduces levels of cancer risk chemical when cooked
14 February 2023
Field trials show that a form of wheat developed using CRIPSR gene editing produces lower levels of the potentially carcinogenic compound acrylamide when cooked at high temperatures
Alzheimer’s disease progression slowed using CRISPR technique in mice
12 December 2022
Removing only a small segment of a gene in the brain cells of mice reduced the formation of plaques seen in Alzheimer’s disease by 44 per cent
Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia
11 December 2022
A 13-year-old girl whose leukaemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells after receiving a dose of immune cells that were genetically edited to attack the cancer
Labrador dogs gene edited and cloned to prevent inherited hip disease
3 August 2022
CRISPR gene editing has been used to try to prevent a genetic disorder in dogs for the first time, in this case a common condition called hip dysplasia
Gene-edited dogs created from cloned skin cells for the first time
22 July 2022
New gene-editing approach could be used to eliminate disease-causing mutations from pedigree dog breeds or even from clones of individual dogs
‘Softer’ form of CRISPR may edit genes more accurately
1 July 2022
Gene editing with CRISPR can cause off-target mutations, but this seems to happen less often with an enzyme that cuts one of the strands of DNA instead of both
