Western Biotech Firm Treats First Patient With CRISPR

Thanks for joining me! CRISPR Therapeutics used the technique to treat someone with a serious blood disease. CRISPR, Baby A Switzerland-based startup called CRISPR Therapeutics just used gene-editing name to treat someone with the blood disease beta thalassemia. That’s a big deal, because it marks the first time CRISPR gene editing has been used in a Western […]

Physicists create exotic electron liquid

In conventional electronic devices, electricity requires the movement of electrons (blue spheres) and their positive counterparts, called holes (red spheres), which behave much like the gas molecules in our atmosphere. Although they move rapidly and collide infrequently in the gas phase, electrons and holes can condense into liquid droplets akin to liquid water in devices […]