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The 3Rs Committee of the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) is delighted to announce the winner of the 2020 ISTT 3Rs Prize: Lydia Teboul, for her abstract titled "Evolving the generation by genome editing of complex alleles and their validation". Thanks to our 3Rs prize sponsors - Janvier Labs - Lydia will receive free 2021 membership, free registration for the TT2022 meeting and a cash prize of 500 Euro.
Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life 7 October 2020 “for the development of a method for genome editing”
The Board of Directors of the International Society for Transgenic Technology (ISTT) has the following comment on the ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which requires any that genome-edited organism shall be treated as GMO within the meaning of the European GMO Directive.
The ISTT, a scientific society representing the largest group of experts in the field of genome modification in animals, is surprised and disappointed that the court decided to focus on the method and not the product of genome editing and thus did not follow the recommendation of the court's Advocate General.
In a collaborative effort of USA, South Korean and Chinese laboratories, the authors describe the correction of a mutation in the MYBPC3 gene associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, through gene-editing, using CRISPR tools. (Nature article detailing results).
