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Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons that can correct multiple disease-causing mutations at once. Unlike ...

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TP53 mutations are crucial in cancer development and treatment response, influenced by genetic and environmental factors. In CLL and AML, TP53 serves as a significant prognostic marker, affecting ...

Advanced biotechnology repurposes two bacterial immune systems to correct large stretches of DNA. Human cells that have been edited with the new retron-based gene editing technology. Orange dots mark ...