Europe’s first field trial of gene-edited vines began in northern Italy on 30 September 2024. These Chardonnay vines have undergone gene inactivation to enable them to better defend themselves against downy mildew, a major fungal disease. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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📌 PhD Funded Position in CRISPR-Based Genome Editing in Plants 🌱🧬 at CEITEC MU in Czech Republic 🇨🇿, See details at: agristok.net/2025/02/10/phd… via Agristok

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In @nature we describe the use of scalable #proteinengineering & #machinelearning to predict millions of bespoke CRISPR-Cas9 enzymes, offering safer & more genome editing tools. 🧬🖥️ Rachel Silverstein CGM at MGH @MGH_RI MassGeneral News Harvard Medical School nature.com/articles/s4158…

Fantastic news for genome engineers: Bridge recombinases work in human cells!!🧬 And they can make really big insertions, deletions, and inversions with impressive efficiency. From Arc Institute Patrick Hsu Nicholas Perry & team

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Data from the second human treated with a prime edited medicine: a 56-year-old male with chronic granulotamous disease (CGD) had his bone marrow prime edited to insert the missing GT in NCF1, restoring NADPH oxidase function in neutrophils (DHR positivity) several fold beyond the