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Executive Health Management

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2016 31 Jan

University of Iowa researchers and Columbia University Medical Center opthalmologists have together used a new technology for repairing disease-genes and have been able to correct a blindness-causing gene mutation in stem cells derived from a patient. The research is published in Scientific Reports .  The new technique is called CRISPR and can repair...Read more