Can CRISPR help beat COVID-19? SARS- CoV-2, better known globally as coronavirus, took the world by storm after coming to rise in the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019. This pandemic shook the world and forced most nations into country-wide lockdowns. To date, this pandemic has claimed more than 12 million lives globally [1] with the death toll still rising.
Many pharmaceutical companies…
Commonly encountered allergic conditions include Asthma, Allergic Rhinitis, Atopic Dermatitis, Urticaria, Conjunctivitis, and different food allergies. These are caused by a trigger of immune response in the body, which results in eosinophilic inflammation and skewing of the immune responses towards the type 2 helper cells. Moreover, allergic conditions like food allergies also involve the release…
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Why Gene Editing Is The Next Food Revolution
Gene Editing has numerous uses in our lives today, which include treatment of inherited conditions like heart diseases, viral infections, and the potential prevention of certain types of cancers. However, its use is not only limited to medicine and can be used in the agriculture industry as well, where the natural food sources may be enhanced in nutrition, size, and color and made more resistant…
The covid-19 was reported to have begun in Wuhan, China, after a 55-year-old man got infected on November 17, 2019. The virus soon spread to Iran and onwards until almost every country of the world got affected. This was when the WHO changed the status of the new virus from a simple epidemic to a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Over the past year, millions of individuals all over the world have…
The CRISPR-cas9 technology has endless biomedical and biological applications that could forever alter our world.
For the past decade it has caused quite a stir in the scientific community.
But not everyone is as excited.
Specifically, philosophers, skeptics, and average citizens who are concerned with the moral and ethical implications of the ever-advancing technology.
Some of…
The recent Corona Virus, which is known as the Covid-19 virus, first emerged in December 2019 and rapidly spread to all parts of the world, causing a global pandemic. The high number of cases of the virus in all countries of the world and its associated mortality has become a source of great concern and leading to a number of studies being conducted to evaluate what will help control the spread.
The newly discovered RNA-guided genome editing system known as CRISPR-Cas9 allows efficient and precise targeting of specific genes and offered numerous benefits over the previously used Gene Therapy systems.
Gene Therapy
Gene Therapy is a system that involves alteration of the DNA or RNA of an organism to facilitate therapeutic uses. It can be used for the treatment or preventative of…