Crispr Pioneer Launches Startup to Make Tailored Gene-Editing Treatments

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA ...
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Startup Aurora Seeks To Replicate Baby KJ Success With $16M in Seed Money

Friday, Aurora Therapeutics debuted with $16 million in seed capital from Menlo Ventures. Its goal: To develop the industry’s ...
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to scientists who discovered CRISPR gene editing tool for 'rewriting the code of life'

CNN — The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing. They discovered one of gene technology's ...

Scientists are inventing treatments for devastating diseases. There’s just one problem.

Gene therapy treatments for rare diseases are being developed, but getting them out of the lab has proved challenging.
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Nobel Prize for chemistry goes to two scientists for work on genome editing

STOCKHOLM — Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing likened to “molecular scissors” that offer the promise of one day curing inherited diseases ...
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Rewriting the code: The inside story of the first CRISPR cure

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...
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Can CRISPR cure HIV? Scientists say virus removed from cells in new research

Scientists are testing CRISPR gene editing as a potential HIV cure after successfully removing the virus from infected cells ...