New technique enables safer gene-editing therapy using CRISPR

Thursday, June 29, 2017 - 11:22 in Health & Medicine

Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin took an important step toward safer gene-editing cures for life-threatening disorders, from cancer to HIV to Huntington's disease, by developing a technique that can spot editing mistakes a popular tool known as CRISPR makes to an individual's genome. The research appears today in the journal Cell.

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