Genetics
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Casgevy: First CRISPR Therapy Now Also Approved for Children Aged Two and Over
The US Food and Drug Administration has extended the gene therapy Casgevy for sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia to children aged…
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Tailor-Made Gene Scissors: How Baby KJ Is Changing the Approval of Rare Disease Therapies
In just six months, doctors developed a CRISPR therapy for a single child. Now the FDA is creating a pathway for regular…
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Biological Clocks Put to the Test: Which Anti-Ageing Measures Really Change Age Measurably
An analysis in Nature Medicine re-evaluated 51 intervention studies using 16 epigenetic clocks. Result: more than half of the measures did not…
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CRISPR/Cas9 – The Revolutionary Gene Scissors Used in a Human for the First Time
The revolutionary gene-editing system CRISPR/Cas9 was used for the first time in a human patient at West China Hospital on 28 October…
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CRISPR/Cas9 – The Gene Scissors Open a New Era in Genetic Engineering
Since 2012, the CRISPR/Cas9 gene scissors have become the leading method for “genome editing” and are opening up a new era in…
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Myokines
Myokines are messenger substances with hormone-like activity in the organism that are released by the muscles of mammals during movement and contraction.…
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Coeliac Disease and Diet: A Guide to Gluten-Free Living
A gluten-free diet is still the only treatment for coeliac disease. What is allowed, what to look out for when shopping, how…
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Coeliac Disease – an Autoimmune Disease
The gluten-free diet has become a trend – many people choose gluten-free products even though these have no benefit for their health.…
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