[Updated 7/16/18 4:00pm ET, see note below] As CRISPR-based therapeutics inch closer to human tests in the U.S., academic researchers have kept up a steady drum beat about potential risks of the gene editing technique. They recently published two separate papers warning about possible dangers of CRISPR therapies, namely an increased risk of cancer. Both sent shockwaves through the sector.
Today comes the latest warning sign. In a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, researchers in the U.K. show that in mouse and human cells, the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system can delete large chunks of DNA at and… Read more »
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