Gene editing

Feb 09, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI), with its wide range of applications, is enhancing the speed and accuracy of businesses across various industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, finance, marketing, and several others. To take advantage, globally, companies, whether big or small, are actively adopting artificial int...

Feb 25, 2019

Stem Cells therapies and CRISPR gene-editing are not new. Having able to grow the desired cells and manipulate the genome system have proved to be the most important breakthrough so far. We all are aware of the fact that Embryos possess the potential to produce pluripotent cells that researchers experiment on t...

Feb 20, 2019

The ability of CRISPR to change an organism’s DNA has lead researchers, particularly from Nigeria to use the tool to perform diagnostic tests. Since CRISPR therapeutics is all about targeting the genome-specific sequence, the test is believed to pinpoint the exact viral strain circulating. The recent epidemi...

Apr 12, 2018

Cellectis successfully bags USD 164 million for Gene-editing and CAR-T programs After a rough journey in 2017, the road seems clear for French CAR-T specialist Cellectis, which has recently closed a USD 164 million U.S. public offering. Out of total funding amount around USD 100 million will be used to build commerc...

Jan 25, 2018

Pharma startup Bonti has recently grabbed a funding of USD 15 million Managed by Ex-Allergan executives biotech startup Bonti has recently bagged a funding of USD 15.5 million in series C, The Company is focused on developing a new botulinum neurotoxin for both therapeutic and cosmetic uses. Funding will help in the...

Aug 23, 2017

CRISPR has been in the limelight for a very long time, and now it has again touched headlines, not for another milestone, but for a reason that might question the positive effects, it boasts of creating in the research sphere. Two independent researchers at Rockefeller University and New York University edited orco ...

Nov 24, 2016

Six months ago, Chinese researchers reported that an enzyme called NgAgo could be used to edit mammalian genes – and that it might be more accurate and more versatile than the popular CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique. But almost immediately, other scientists complained on internet forums that they could not replic...

Aug 23, 2016

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), a gene-editing technology, has set a record by reaching clinics from the research laboratory in a very short time, as NIH’s Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee has approved the first clinical trial of the technology in the U.S. for coming June. The t...