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Gene editing for Sickle Cell Disease treatment succeeded. This is the story told by BBC about Jimi, one of the study subjects of this treatment trial. According to BBC, this…
Facial Phenotyping by Artificial Intelligence is now possible according to Nature Genetics on 10 February 2022. Patients with rare genetic diseases can be diagnosed this way. Since these diseases are…
Method of the year 2021 has been decided by Nature Methods to be protein structure prediction by artificial intelligence (deep learning)-based methods. Protein structure prediction is chosen as method of…
A medical mystery was solved by a cross-disciplinary team. The genetic cause of a rare, undiagnosed lung disease was identified. The patient was a 2-year-old child, seemingly healthy at birth…
Gene mutation affecting dog size was described in an article that appeared in Nature News on 27 January 2022: Gene mutation affecting dog size was found by researchers as…
Researchers from USA and Switzerland predicted and validated genomic safe harbors for therapeutic genes, enabling safer, more efficient, and predictable gene and cell therapies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2021.100154 Authors Summary Existing approaches to…
On Friday, January 7, 2022, surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical center successfully transplanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human, the first pig to human…
