How to Use gene editing in a Sentence
gene editing
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So far, the gene editing did not seem to affect the health of the chickens.
— Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023 -
So, in the new study, researchers turned to gene editing.
— Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023 -
But gene editing may not be a fix-all for farmed catfish.
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023 -
The team used gene editing to dial down the use of around 300 low-scoring genes found in both humans and fruit flies.
— WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023 -
The gene editing system will recognize the normal DNA and make a cut in it.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2018 -
This is not to say that gene editing cannot do similar things.
— Fyodor Urnov, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024 -
That’s the question a horde of gene editing researchers are chasing.
— Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023 -
His announcement in 2018 sparked a global debate over the ethics of gene editing.
— STAT, 21 Feb. 2023 -
Others agree that these computer vision tools are the missing piece to track the effects of gene editing in the lab.
— Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024 -
What prompted you to mention gene editing and AI in your first public remarks in this role?
— Khari Johnson, Wired, 29 June 2021 -
A lot of the discussion about the possibilities of gene editing are still to do with things that are way off in the future.
— David Marchese, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022 -
All this depends on success and safety of the gene editing and on its effects lasting.
— Gina Kolata, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023 -
The project also involves gene editing — in this case, from the closest living relative of the tigers, the numbat.
— Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022 -
There is also concern that gene editing for health reasons will be out of reach for many because of its cost.
— Katie Hafner, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020 -
That’s because a lot has changed since the first gene editing pioneers filed the original Crispr-Cas9 patents.
— Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Mar. 2021 -
That little enzyme powered all the promise of Crispr gene editing, and the stakes for owning it couldn’t have been higher.
— Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Mar. 2021 -
Of course, even if gene editing works, applying it to young people with heart risk is well into the future.
— Gina Kolata, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023 -
But nobody's going to argue that the gene editing wasn't destined for a Nobel Prize.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2020 -
For starters, the gene editing wasn't 100-percent efficient.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020 -
Sulis and his colleagues have made the first successful attempt to use gene editing to streamline the process of wood fiber production.
— Popular Science, 13 July 2023 -
Besides gene editing, there are other ways to reduce the Fel d 1 protein in felines.
— Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022 -
The imprisoned viruses could then be excised from cells with gene editing.
— Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022 -
Researchers are gene editing the embryos of ____________ to use them as proxies for rare disorders in humans.
— Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2017 -
In response, Berg halted his own research and helped draft a moratorium on gene editing in the 1970s.
— John Johnson Jr., Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023 -
Vor has figured out a way to delete that protein from healthy cells through gene editing so that only cancerous cells are killed.
— Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2021 -
Those ought to be candidates for this kind of in-vivo gene editing strategy.
— Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 31 Oct. 2022 -
The future of human/cat allergy treatment may be in found in cat food, vaccines or gene editing.
— Stacey Burling, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021 -
Urnov, who’s worked with gene editing for more than a decade, has similar worries, especially about the X-Files episode.
— Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2018 -
Despite the focus on somatic gene editing, the summit, the last in a series of three, could not avoid the shadow of He’s experiment.
— Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 13 Mar. 2023 -
Dana Taylor: How is this kind of gene editing impacting patients?
— Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
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