Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
For the first time ever, scientists in the United States have performed gene editing experiments using CRISPR-Cas9 in humans. CRISPR-Cas9 is a bacterial DNA editing… Read More »CRISPR Gene Editing in Human Embryos Performed for the First Time Ever in the U.S.
From the flower on your front porch to your cousin’s lower back tattoo, butterflies are one of the most immediately recognizable insects due to their… Read More »The Butterfly Effect: Wing Research Method Shows Promise
The CRISPR/Cas9 wave that’s recently swept through the scientific community is now churning up a storm of controversy in its wake. Due to its relatively… Read More »Recent CRISPR/Cas9 Research Ignites Ethical Concerns
Peruse through a few articles from major journals and you’d likely come across a new buzzword: CRISPR/Cas9. Short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated… Read More »Johns Hopkins Tackles Genome Editing with CRISPR/Cas9 Symposium