CRISPR Archives - Knowing Neurons

Justin McMahon December 13, 2022December 15, 2022 Cells, CRISPR, DNA, Gene therapy, genes, proteins, RNA, therapeutics, Treatment, virus

Neuro Primer: Gene Therapy

By: Justin McMahon Academic laboratories and biotech companies around the world are racing to develop next-generation therapeutics. At the forefront of this scientific innovation is gene therapy: a medical approach… Read More

Image of book with DNA spiraling outwards towards the front cover of Innate

Brain Books

Gabrielle Torre January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 Brain Books, Chromosomes, CRISPR, Gene editing, Genetics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurodevelopment

Book Review: Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

Around the world, all populations of humans are essentially the same. The differences that make us who we are lie in differences among individuals, which result from only 0.1% of… Read More

Neuroscience Technologies Big Ideas Neuro SciFi Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Philosophy

Joel Frohlich May 31, 2017June 29, 2022 Camp Concentration, Charlie Gordon, CRISPR, Daniel Keyes, Experiment, Flowers for Algernon, Intelligence, IQ, Louis Sacchetti, Nootropics, phenylketonuria, Science Fiction, Thomas M. Disch, Thought

The Ultimate Thought Experiment Part III: Flowers for Algernon

In Part II of this series, we considered artificial intelligent in the context of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel and Stanley Kubrik’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In Space Odyssey, intelligence… Read More

Did You Know?Neuroscience Technologies

Jooyeun Lee March 18, 2015March 5, 2017 Animal model, Cas9, CRISPR, Disease, Disorder, DNA, Double-stranded break, Editing, Enzyme, gene, genetic, Genome, Infographic, Knock-in, Knock-out, KO, Mutagenesis, mutation, PAM, Replacement, Scissors, Targeted, Technique, Therapeutic

CRISPR-Cas9: Targeted Genome Editing

~ Infographic by Jooyeun Lee and Kate Fehlhaber. ~ References: Hsu P. & Feng Zhang (2014). Development and Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for Genome Engineering, Cell, 157 (6) 1262-1278. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.05.010 Fineran… Read More