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How CRISPR therapy could cure everything from cancer to infertility

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How CRISPR therapy could cure everything from cancer to infertility

The imminent approval of the world's first CRISPR treatment for sickle cell disease is just the start: soon this gene-editing tool could be used to tackle everything from cancer to high cholesterol and infertility

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M93A81 Golden colored Asian Rice plants (Oryza sativa) growing in their natural condition with drooping rice grains and a mountain background in rural Japan

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Gene-edited rice may be able to grow on Mars

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Sickle cell red blood cells

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Sickle cell disease is now curable, but the treatment is unaffordable

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Gene-edited wheat field trial harvesting

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Gene-edited wheat reduces levels of cancer risk chemical when cooked

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Amyloid plaques forming between neurons. Beta-amyloid protein disrupting nerve cells function in a brain with Alzheimer's disease

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Alzheimer’s disease progression slowed using CRISPR technique in mice

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Alyssa on the day she received the base-edited cell therapy in May

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Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia

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Two Labrador puppies

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Labrador dogs gene edited and cloned to prevent inherited hip disease

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Two beagle puppies

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Gene-edited dogs created from cloned skin cells for the first time

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Illustration of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing complex

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‘Softer’ form of CRISPR may edit genes more accurately

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What's next for the gene-edited children from CRISPR trial in China?

Scientists in China are considering how best to look after three children who were gene-edited as embryos in He Jiankui’s controversial experiment

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Children to get CRISPR treatment for sickle cell disease in trial

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CRISPR nanocapsule limits growth of aggressive brain tumours in mice

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Environment

Rice and maize yields boosted up to 10 per cent by CRISPR gene editing

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Environment

Gene-edited food is 5 years away in England, says government scientist

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