March 10

Proof of principle for bone marrow gene editing in vivo in a pre-clinical mouse model
At the recent Keystone symposia on Precision Genome Editing, Sean Burns presented an update on CRISPR gene editing of bone marrow cells in vivo.
https://www.biospace.com/article/intellia-s-non-viral-genome-editing-techniques-show-promise/

Keywords: CRISPR,  bone marrow, in vivo gene editing

March 8

Book Reviews. Like to read about CRISPR?
Two books revolving around CRISPR were recently published:

• CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans Henry T. Greely, MIT Press (2021)

• The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster (2021)

For more information, see: Scully, J.L. (2021) A biographer and a bioethicist take on the CRISPR revolution. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00579-x

Keywords: CRISPR,  books

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