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Wikipedia says that they first used viruses as delivery agents; now it's nanoparticles, aparently to avoid destruction by the immune system. Also interesting th
by MichaelMoser123 5y ago
Wikipedia says that they first used viruses as delivery agents; now it's nanoparticles, aparently to avoid destruction by the immune system. Also interesting that CRISPR gene editing was also the subject of a patent war. Amazing stuff... (also it took them less than a year to adopt the nanoparticle trick to CRISPR gene editing. Things are moving fast)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_gene_editing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_gene_editing
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/11/coated-nanoparticles-survive-immune-system-and-deliver-drugs/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/11/coated-nanopa...
- Alkhwarizmi 5y agoThe patent war is already a settled matter for the reasonable folks amongst us, nevertheless there are people among us who still believe that the criminals at Harvard have any stake in this patent!
- MichaelMoser123 5y agohere is a better link: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/crispr-injected-blood-treats-genetic-disease-first-time https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/crispr-injected-bloo... they say that they are using lipid nanoparticles, that's the same stuff that is used in the Moderna and Phizer covid vaccines. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378517321003914 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037851732... We are living in the twenty first century...