CRISPeR MANIA | NOTIZIE E OPINIONI DALLA FRONTIERA DELL'EDITING GENOMICO
Description: NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE FRONTIER OF GENOME EDITING
By now it seems official. The first CRISPR plant to debut in the US market will not be a commodity for industry or intensive livestock farming, as was the case with classic GMOs in the 1990s. This time genetic innovation enters on tiptoe , with a food product designed for discerning consumers. A new type of salad, as nutrient-rich as a wild misticanza but without the bitter notes that usually relegate brassicas to foods to be eaten cooked ( see here ).
We used to imagine DNA as the book of life, the code, the Rosetta stone of Homo sapiens . But the repertoire of metaphors needs updating. Today, our species portrait has taken on the appearance of a network of nodes and relationships. Welcome to the age of the pangenome: the collective genome (pan in Greek means everything) that aspires to become more and more complex, plural, cosmopolitan and inclusive.
He was the first patient to get a CRISPR therapy for muscular dystrophy. The first to receive a CRISPR treatment made specifically for him. And also the first to try a CRISPR approach that did not aim to change a DNA sequence but only its expression (epigenetic editing). Six months after Terry Horgan’s passing, his brother Richard disclosed the first information on the cause of death.
CRISPeR MANIA | NOTIZIE E OPINIONI DALLA FRONTIERA DELL'EDITING GENOMICO