The recent development of a powerful and flexible genome editing technique (the CRISP-cas9 method) accelerates tremendously the production of animal models and will significantly enhance the perspectives of (somatic) gene ...

Analysing the data recently presented by Jiankui He and assuming that it is authentic shows that the goal of abolishing the expression of CCR5 may have been reached for one of the resulting twins, although this remains to ...

Comme on l’a dit et répété dans ces colonnes [1–3], la valeur prédictive des profils génétiques à base de Snip vendus par 23andMe, Navigenics et autres « entreprises DTC » (direct to consumer) est très faible pour ne pas ...

A new company is offering extensive genetic analysis of embryos during an in vitro fertilisation procedure, allowing the derivation of polygenic scores for several diseases and embryo choice based on these results. Polygenic ...