New Atlas

One-off lipid-lowering gene therapy a success in world-first human trial

In a world-first trial, scientists used a one-off CRISPR gene edit to switch off a liver “fat brake” gene, slashing stubborn ...

First-in-human trial of CRISPR gene-editing therapy safely lowers cholesterol and triglycerides

In a 15-patient, Phase 1, first-in-human trial, a one-time CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing therapy safely reduced LDL cholesterol ...

Dyadic Applied BioSolutions Expands Genetic Engineering Capabilities Through CRISPR/Cas9 Commercial License with ERS Genomics

Access to ERS Genomics’ foundational CRISPR/Cas9 patent portfolio expands our genetic engineering toolkit and strengthens our ability to speed up and optimize strain development across Dyadic’s ...
Frontiers

Advances in Genome Editing for Translational Research in Large Animal Models

Advances in genome editing have transformed the development of animal models used to understand human diseases. While transgenic mouse models have broadly ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Created Structures That Produced Blood Cells in the Lab—With a Process That Mimics Real Human Embryos

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...
EurekAlert!

Novel CRISPR-Cas strategy increases gene editing efficiency in tomatoes by over 9-Fold

Gene editing in plants remains challenging, with the traditional non-homologous end-joining (cNHEJ) repair pathway often hindering precision. In this study, researchers advanced CRISPR-Cas-based gene ...
Labroots

New Cas9 Enzymes Improve the Accuracy of CRISPR Prime Editing

The CRISPR gene editing system holds tremendous promise. It has already revolutionized biomedical research by making gene editing a straightforward process. It involves using a guide RNA molecule that ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See the First 3D Images of a Human Embryo Implanting, Shedding Light on the Crucial but Little-Known Process

A human embryo embeds itself into a fake uterus created by researchers. Screenshot from an Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia video Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an ...
News Medical

Researchers capture first 3D real-time images of human embryo implantation

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in collaboration with the Dexeus University Hospital have captured unparalleled images of a human embryo implanting. This is the ...
Scientific American

First 3D Images of Human Embryo Implantation Reveal New Details of the Process

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...
EurekAlert!

Human embryo implantation recorded in real time for the first time

Statements in English by Samuel Ojosnegros Martos, Principal Investigator of the Bioengineering for Reproductive Health Group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), and leader of the ...
STAT

Japan’s green light for making human embryos from stem cells takes us into uncharted territory

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. Japanese regulators just quietly gave researchers there a historic OK to generate ...