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Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Gene Therapy Approvals Gain Steam in 2023: Treatments Offer New Hopes for Rare Diseases

After decades of intense scientific research into developing gene editing technologies, and more than a few setbacks, the field has produced a number of success stories in recent years, demonstrating that regulatory agencies...more

Hogan Lovells

Legal confusion on essentially derived varieties must be cleared up for the sake of innovation - Green light to gene-editing...

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As gene editing techniques come to the fore in the UK and elsewhere, industry increasingly needs clarity on the breeder's exception to plant variety rights. Originally published on IAM media.com on May 2022....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Great Dane Genome Reveals Involvement of Retrotransposition in Canine Diversity

The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) has been the subject of many genetic studies, particularly since the dawning of the age of Whole Genome Sequencing in the late 20th Century.  These studies have elucidated some...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Science Does Not Support the Latest COVID Hysteria

In a time of a global pandemic, with antivaxxer and anti-science sentiments running rife, and when combinations of fear, distrust, and paranoia are rampant, it is easy for important results from basic science to become fodder...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Groundbreaking Releases of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Hold Enormous Promise for Public Health Worldwide

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Dengue Fever, Chikungunya, Zika, Yellow Fever – what do all these diseases have in common? They are caused by viruses that enter human bloodstreams via mosquito bites. The culprit that transmits these viruses is the Aedes...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

DNA from Pleistocene Era Mammoth Lineages Elucidated

The wooly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an iconic animal, like the saber tooth tiger or dire wolf, from a time in human history when our position at the top of the global food chain was decidedly not assured (and being...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

What is M-E-A-T?

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M-E-A-T has become a complicated word. A variety of alternative meat products are on the market or in development. Plant-based meat substitutes are already commonplace in our grocery stores and restaurants. Some of these...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Do mRNA-based COVID Vaccines Have an Achilles Heel?

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread throughout the globe, infecting more than 90 million people and causing almost two million deaths (see "Tracking coronavirus' global spread"). SARS-CoV-2 infection is the cause of the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Dire Wolf DNA Shows Distinct New World Lineage

The dire wolf (Canis dirus), prototype of the various wolves that were important members of the House Stark family of characters in Game of Thrones, was found uniquely in North America until its extinction in the late...more

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A Promising Tool for Rapid Diagnosis of Unknown Infections in Body Fluids: Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing

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Scientists at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a single test, Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing (mNGS), that can rapidly identify infectious microbes in body fluids, increasing the speed...more

Haug Partners LLP

Vaccine Design Will Likely Determine the Success of Each COVID-19 Vaccine

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This article provides a basic overview of the immune system and how its successful engagement is necessary to produce a commercial vaccine, with a specific focus on the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 disease and...more

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Genetic Diversity and Relationships of Living and Extinct Lions

Lions (Panthera leo) once were a widely distributed group of terrestrial mammals, ranging during the Pleistocene (from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago) in Eurasia, Africa, and North America, with species that included the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In Advance of NIH Action, Stakeholders Seek Harassment Database, Services for Victims

Report on Research Compliance 16, no. 12 (December 2019) - An independent federal office should be established to address “substantiated claims of sexual misconduct,” investigators should disclose related findings against...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Avocado Genome Elucidated

The avocado, having gained popularity (at least in the U.S.) as a convenient (and delicious) vehicle for consuming otherwise not particularly healthful corn chips, has more recently been hailed as a "superfood" when consumed...more

Knobbe Martens

Updates to the Law on Cloning

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It was recently reported that China had successfully cloned a 12-year old schnauzer — the most recent of over 20 dog breeds successfully cloned by the nation so far. "Doudou" the schnauzer was cloned through somatic cell...more

A&O Shearman

Rise Of New CRISPR Inventions: The Toolbox Of Research Applications For CRISPR-Based Systems Continues To Expand

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Introduction - Although much of the reporting around CRISPR tends to focus on its cleavage based ability to knock out or repair targeted sequences of DNA in a genome, particularly for human therapeutic or agricultural...more

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New CRISPR Technology May Be a Breakthrough for Low-Cost Disease Diagnostics

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An MIT group consisting of the CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang and 18 of his colleagues recently published a paper in Science demonstrating a new platform for using CRISPR technology as a diagnostic tool for detecting nucleic...more

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Guest Post -- The Patient Side of the CRISPR Patent Battle

A contentious patent battle has continued to rage between the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT and the University of California ("UC"). UC is challenging thirteen patents related to CRISPR gene editing technology that are...more

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