Delaware-developed CRISPR cancer therapy edging closer to human testing

Christiana Care Health System ’s Gene Editing Institute is preparing a preliminary investigational new drug (IND) application that, if approved by the Food and Drug Administration, would allow the institute to begin human testing of a CRISPR therapy it is developing to treat non-small cell lung cancer. CRISPR, an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a technique that allows researchers to alter DNA sequences and modify gene function. Christiana Care’s Gene…
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