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'Take a deep breath in': a new treatment for congenital lung disease

Diseases that affect young children and babies with no apparent cure are devastating to witness or even hear. One such group of diseases known as Children’s Interstitial and Diffuse Lung Disease (cHILD) has many symptoms associated with difficulty in breathing and a reduced ability of... click to read more

Vanessa Xavier | PhD student at Department of Cell Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

CRISPR

genome editors

respiratory illness

perinatal defects

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Dec 20, 2019

Gene edited “superpigs” resist devastating disease

Genome editors are simple tools that allow scientists to make very precise changes to the genome of any organism by cutting the genome at a very precise location. If you imagine the genome as a single, continuous string of information containing the instructions to build... click to read more

Christine Burkard | Assistant professor at The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

genetics

disease

resistance

genome editors

Reading time 4.5 min

published on Feb 13, 2019