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New research may be cure to Huntington’s Disease

TheremaybenewhopeforthosesufferingfromafatalbraindisordercalledHuntington’sDisease.ResearchersatEmoryUniversity,areusingagroundbreakinggeneeditingtoolcalledCRIS

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UC Berkeley researchers discover CRISPR systems in microbes

Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered simple CRISPR systems, or gene-editing tools, in previously unexplored bacteria.

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Chinese scientists change sheep color by gene editing

Consumers may be about to get more options for the color natural wool products as Chinese scientists have used gene editing to alter the coat colors of sheep.

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"Molecular scissors" named Science's 2015 "Breakthrough of the Year"

The prestigious U.S. journal Science on Thursday chose a popular gene editing tool called CRISPR, which acts as a type of molecular scissors able to selectively trim away unwanted genome parts and replace it with new DNA stretches, as the 2015 Breakthrough of the Year.