Like a delivery driver navigating crowded city streets, a gene-therapy-toting lipid nanoparticle faces a gauntlet of potential detours on its journey toward a cell's nucleus. First, there's entering ...

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Scientists and biotechnology experts have called for increased investment in genetics, molecular biology and gene-editing research, saying technologies such as CRISPR could help Nigeria and other ...

For patients with blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, the immunotherapy known as CAR-T cell therapy can be lifesaving. Doctors remove a patient's immune cells, called T cells, engineer them in ...

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A domestic research team is developing an anticancer technology that attacks DNA mutations found only in cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. Unlike existing targeted anticancer drugs, ...

The CRISPR therapy, SNIPR001, was administered following a single-patient emergency investigational new drug application.

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SNIPR001 is SNIPR’s lead engineered CRISPR-enhanced medicine designed to selectively target E. coli. In the published case report, the patient received intravenous, topical, and intralesional ...