It's been hailed as one of the most potentially transformative inventions in modern medicine, bringing the prospect of designer babies closer than any other technology to date, but CRISPR-Cas9 could be riskier than we thought. The technology that could spark a gene-editing revolution has been caught introducing hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome, and with scientists already testing it in humans, it's set off some serious alarm bells.

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  • Peninsula biotech co-founded by Jennifer Doudna lands CRISPR gene-editing pact with Regeneron
    Trying to deliver compact CRISPR-based gene-editing packages to new places in the body, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and a Peninsula company co-founded by Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna signed a ...
    04/25/2024 - 4:50 am | View Link
  • Generative AI arrives in the gene-editing world of CRISPR
    Generative artificial intelligence technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a Hollywood ...
    04/24/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
  • CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing articles from across Nature Portfolio
    CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing exploits the CRISPR-Cas system to modify a genome in a targeted manner. Guided by RNA, the Cas9 endonuclease breaks DNA at a target sequence. Imprecise repair of the ...
    04/23/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
  • Profluent combines LLMs and CRISPR for open-source AI gene editing project
    The protein-focused artificial intelligence startup believes that its large language models can help extend the reach of CRISPR gene editing tools ... of generating hundreds of thousands of ...
    04/23/2024 - 3:01 am | View Link
  • Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR
    Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA. The physical structure of OpenCRISPR-1, a gene editor created by A.I ...
    04/21/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
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