Casdin CapitalCasdin Capital | Financing Next Generation Life Science Innovation Menu Mission Values Team Venture Investors Contact Industry Topics Tech Cancer Gene Therapy Rare Disease Industrial Biotech Policy Price What's Trending in the Molecular World Splicing and Dicing DNA: Genome Engineering and the CRISPR Revolution 2:39 pm CRISPR: Its the powerful gene editing technology transforming biomedical research. Hosted By World Science Festival | June 3, 2016 | MODERATOR: Richard Besser Check out panelist George Church who will also be joining us for our 1st Annual Partners Meeting at the New York Genome Center September 22, 2016. A Push to Lower Drug Prices That Hit Insurers and Employers the Hardest Americans have expressed outrage at drug companies for raising prices on products like EpiPen, the severe allergy treatment needed by thousands of children, and Daraprim, a rarely used but essential drug to treat a parasitic infection. Read more here. This algorithm could make DNA origami as simple as 3D printing DNAs structure doesnt have to be just a double helix: by fiddling with the order of bases or substituting other molecules, the strand can be cause to make a hard right turn, or curve around in one direction or another and with enough foresight, a single strand can make enough twists and convolutions that [] Pac-Man like protein which eats dead cells could help in the fight against cancer Scientists at the University of Sheffield have identified a protein which causes cells to eat their dying neighbours, helping to prevent inflammation something which is vital in the fight to stop cancer spreading. Read more here. Boom in unproven cell therapies intensifies regulatory debate Controversial US guidelines attempt to rein in rogue stem-cell clinics. By Heidi Ledford homas Albini met his first patient blinded by a stem-cell treatment last year. The elderly woman, who had macular degeneration, thought she was paying to participate in a clinical trial that would save her sight by injecting stem cells into both [] Alzheimers treatment appears to alleviate memory loss in small trial Larger studies are under way to test whether the promising early data holds up. By Erika Check Hayden A drug called aducanumab might remove the toxic proteins thought to trigger Alzheimers disease from the brain, suggests findings from a small clinical trial. The results, reported on 31 August in Nature1, showed that aducanumab broke up [] follow "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. 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