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Delivering on the promise of gene editing

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As gene editing technologies like CRISPR progress toward clinical study, researchers must continue to advance new approaches and address inherent challenges, explains Jon Chesnut, PhD, Senior Director, Cell Biology R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific. Early phase clinical trials for gene editing therapies.

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Casting aside CRISPR scissors and making a point with base editors

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Dr Jennifer Harbottle, senior scientist in the R&D Base Editing team of PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery business, looks at progress made in the realms of biotechnology and next-generation diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics, including the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in developing and refining cell therapies.

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CRISPR breakthroughs: New solutions for common diseases

Drug Discovery World

Since its discovery in 2012, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology has revolutionised the biomedicine and cell and gene therapy fields, providing a versatile tool for precise and efficient genome editing. CRISPR diagnostics have successfully detected various pathogens, including RNA viruses (eg.

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Reflecting on PEGS Europe 2023 

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coli expression systems and is using high-throughput expression pipelines to screen constructs for optimal expression to generate protein and cellular reagents. To demonstrate the utility of the company’s SYNTAX system in gene assembly, the 1.7 kb Influenza A hemagglutinin gene was used as a model system.