22/06/2022

Delivering COVID-19 vaccines related news: a case-study

Summary: Scientific observations need to be extensively tested before they can be translated into a solid conclusion. A recent scientific publication has opened up again the discussion about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. Because of the system used in the mentioned study, the relative findings cannot be directly transferred to healthy systems or living organisms. Other experts in the field […]

Sara Carmignani COVID19 0 5 min read
19/01/2022

CRISPR/Cas9 series: a compelling journey from a primitive bacterial defence system to an advanced human gene-editing technology

The side effects of CRISPR / Cas9 and the current strategies to mitigate them Summary: The CRISPR/Cas9 system often not only cuts at the intended site of the genome, but also in other unwanted places, which are called off-targets; Off-target events are mainly due to sequence homology between sgRNA and genomic DNA other than the target one, as well as […]

Raniero Chimienti CRISPR-Cas9 0 5 min read