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May 79 min read

COVID-19 Vaccines: mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19

The use of mRNA in medical interventions has been researched for the last 20 years, hence it was ready to be applied to the COVID-19 vaccine

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May 79 min read

COVID-19 VACCINES: Adenovirus-Based Vaccines for COVID-19

Adenoviruses have been used in gene therapy and have also been researched for use in vaccines for decades including for Covid-19.

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May 75 min read

GENE & CELL THERAPY 101: Different Approaches to Gene & Cell Therapy

Treating disease by changing our bodies at a microscopic level: gene and cell therapy.

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May 75 min read

GENE & CELL THERAPY 101: Introducing Vectors

Vectors are essentially vehicles designed to deliver therapeutic genetic material, such as a working gene, directly into a cell.

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May 74 min read

GENE & CELL THERAPY 101: Cell Therapy Basics

Cell therapy aims to introduce new, healthy cells into a patient’s body, to replace the diseased or missing ones.

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May 73 min read

GENE & CELL THERAPY 101: Gene Therapy Basics

Gene therapy has been studied for over 40 years and can help stop or slow the effects of disease at the most basic level - genes

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Nov 29, 20221 min read

Intellia’s Modular CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing Platform for the Treatment of Disease

Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, Intellia Therapeutics Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, Ph.D....

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Nov 29, 20221 min read

Safety considerations in therapeutic genome editing

Toni Cathomen, University of Freiburg Toni Cathomen is Director of the Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy at the Medical...

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Nov 29, 20221 min read

Repurposing of bacterial CRISPR-Cas immunity for genome editing

Virgis Siksnys, Vilnius University, Institute of Biotechnology Video available to ESGCT members only Virginijus Siksnys studied chemistry...

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