Crazy 4 Prime Editing

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Anna Meldolesi

Great piece of science by the Liu Lab in Nature, describing the brand new “Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA”. How is the CRISPR community reacting?

Best quote: “One of those ‘Yay, science!!!’ kind of moments” (Fyodor Urnov quoted in Science)

Most ironic: “Congratulations @davidrliu. We’d probably have published this paper as well (The CRISPR Journal tweet)

Best title: Genome Editing Heads to Primetime (Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News)

Most understated: A New Gene Editing Tool Could Make CRISPR More Precise (Smithsonian Mag)

Most hyped: A New CRISPR Technique Could Fix Almost All Genetic Diseases (Wired)

The best of Human Nature, the film about CRISPR

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Anna Meldolesi

Here is a semi-serious selection of the things that I liked the most in the documentary by Adam Bolt (please see the gallery’s caption to know why)

The CRISPRmobile driven by Rodolphe Barrangou (the CRISPR journal’s editor-in-chief); Fyodor Urnov’s communication skills (and t-shirt); Francisco Mojica replaying his seminal experiment in Spain; Alta Charo’s Star Trek-inspired bio-optimism; Vladimir Putin representing the voice of bio-pessimism (“it may be more terrifying than a nuclear bomb” he said at the World Youth Festival in Sochi, 21 October 2017); Ruthie and David playing basketball while their relatives worry about their health problems; last but not least the movie’s real star, the gorgeous Cas9!

Human Nature, the documentary

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Anna Meldolesi

The official webpage of the documentary that chronicles the entire CRISPR story. The first major interview of the award-winning director Adam Bolt, published in the CRISPR Journal. The review appeared on Science‘s website. That’s all you need to know while waiting for the film to show near you!

The Great CRISPR Wave

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Anna Meldolesi

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa revisited by Ryan Snook for Nature and by the street artist Santlov. Crispy holidays everybody, we’ll be back soon!

CRISPRcon goes to Wageningen

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Anna Meldolesi

After Berkeley 2017 and Boston 2018, CRISPR takes center stage in the Netherlands later this week. We’ll be there to hear about science, society and the future of gene editing!

CRISPR news: the good, the bad and the ugly

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Anna Meldolesi

read-the-news History in the making: student experiment edits DNA with CRISPR technology in space (Iss national lab blog)

Emails reveal that a facility in Dubai and others have asked geneticist He Jiankui for help in gene-editing embryos (The Scientist)

New worries about CRISPR babies: gene edits might have shortened their life expectancy (Nature)

CRISPR binge-watching

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Anna Meldolesi

The best TED talks about gene editing, selected by The Bench blog

CRISPR & the media: a 5 years coverage analysis

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Anna Meldolesi

Content analysis of the articles published in North America from 2012 to 2017 shows, overall, a strong promotion of CRISPR. See the paper by Alessandro Marcon et al. in Genetics in Medicine.

Harvard breaks the record for multiple editing

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Anna Meldolesi

dna colorato “Wow! Badass. 13,200 crispr base edits in a single cell! On the way to ‘recoded’ human cells,” tweeted Antonio Regalado before covering the news in MIT Technology Review. To be honest, the radical redesign of species is still sci-fi dystopia, but the paper preprinted by Cory J. Smith et al. in bioRxiv is impressive anyway. Continue reading →

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