Gene therapy and CRISPR strategies for curing blindness (Yes, you read that right)
Strategies to cure various types of blindness are looking more plausible after a series of recent breakthroughs using gene editing and gene therapy.
Hemant Khanna, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
• conversation
June 25, 2020 • ~9 min
June 25, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: gene-therapy blindness gene-editing vision infrared eye crisprcas
How the Hubble Space Telescope opened our eyes to the first galaxies of the universe
Thirty years ago the Hubble Space Telescope began snapping photos of distant stars, providing a time machine that has taken astronomers back to when the universe was less than a billion years old.
Rodger I. Thompson, Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
• conversation
April 24, 2020 • ~9 min
April 24, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: astronomy nasa hubble-space-telescope james-webb-telescope infrared universe-expansion star-formation galaxies
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