Precision correction of pathogenic mutations using prime editing technology
A broad range of genome editing tools are currently available enabling targeted scission at a predetermined DNA locus.
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Alexander Baker
Nov 26, 20193 min read
Programmed to kill: Synthetic virology to attack cancer
Carefully modified viruses are becoming major new drugs in the battle against cancer.
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Robyn Bell
Oct 13, 20192 min read
Gene-loaded sutures to promote tendon healing
Injuries to tendons are commonly seen in the clinic yet few strategies exist to improve upon slow and largely poor tendon healing standards.
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Sian Harding
Sep 29, 20193 min read
3D Printing of Personalized Cardiac Patches and Hearts
Tissue engineering for cardiac repair has reached an advanced stage and engineered constructs are starting to be approved for trials.
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Linda Popplewell
Jul 24, 20194 min read
Retirement of Prof George Dickson, a founder of British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy
The British Society for Gene Therapy was founded by a number of pioneers in the field including Prof George Dickson.
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Liam Hurst
Jul 15, 20194 min read
The origin of your noggin
‘Where do you get your brains from?!’
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Jonathan Appleby
May 13, 20195 min read
Human Germline Editing – What’s the big deal?
In November 2018, He Jiankui, gave a presentation at the second international summit on Human Genome Editing.
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Alan Parker
Apr 24, 20194 min read
One image at a time: using cryoEM to unpick how viruses infect cells
Over the last few years a wave of virus-based therapies has progressed through late stage clinical evaluation and to (or near to) the market
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Alexandra McCarron
Mar 14, 20195 min read
A final chance to breathe: Could gene therapy cure cystic fibrosis lung disease?
For decades, scientists and doctors have worked tirelessly towards developing effective treatments for CF.
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Subashan Vadibeler
Feb 22, 20195 min read
Cracking the enthesis code
More than three quarters of shoulder repair surgeries fail while long-term disabilities due to sports-related injuries remain a huge burden.
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Beth MacLeod
Feb 1, 20195 min read
Overcoming the disconnection
A hundred billion neurons are making connections with one another, constantly firing and passing messages to every part of our body.
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Lucy Lewis
Jan 21, 20194 min read
Putting the dopamine back in Parkinson’s
One in 37 people in the UK are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) during their lifetime (Parkinson’s UK, 2018).
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Helena Meyer-Berg
Dec 14, 20184 min read
Rare is not so rare
In the disease surfactant protein B deficiency, a certain protein called surfactant protein B is missing in the lung of new-born babies.
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Alan Parker
Nov 27, 20173 min read
It’s an ECR life?
Who’d be an ECR these days? The BSGCT Early Career Development and Collaboration Subcommittee is here to help.
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Rafael J. Yáñez-Muñoz
Jun 7, 20164 min read
Mitochondrial donation: pronuclear transfer progress
Author: Professor Rafael J. Yáñez-Muñoz, Royal Holloway University of London Mitochondria produce ATP and are generally considered the...
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