Category: New Technologies

Casgevy: The first authorized CRISPR-based gene editing therapy

Post author By Konstantina Louka
Post date February 25, 2024

It’s been almost four years since professors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the now well-known genome editing CRISPR/Cas9 system. Since then, researchers have tried to utilize this tool to induce targeted alterations in DNA to repair faulty genes or change specific nucleotide sequences in the fight against […]

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New Technologies

A Device Printing Human Organs

Post author By Konstantina Louka
Post date August 22, 2020

Have you ever imagined that you could use a printer that instead of printing your homework on a piece of paper it could print a three-dimensional object like a cell phone case or a miniature dog? This has become a reality for the last couple of years with the use of 3D printers that differ […]