
Dr James Crowe
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Dr James Crowe
@SlimJimCrowe
Pharmacological tinkerer and PhD. Interests include Neuroscience, human brain models and Sci-fi! Working on Autism Spectrum Disorder at UZH. Views own.





Below is the story of the first patient treated with a prime-edited therapeutic, developed by @PrimeMedicine in a trial led by Dr. Élie Haddad and his team at CHU Sainte-Justine. This teenager suffered from chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), an immunodeficiency, and now—10 months after treatment—the patient is healthy, stable, and living with a functioning immune system. Tracy Attebury, whose story was previously told by @ginakolata @nytimes, was the second patient treated with a prime-edited therapeutic. cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54638.html



Neonatal hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a leading cause of infant morbidity. Cortical subplate neurons transiently secrete a brain specific protein, neuroserpin. We now show that exogenous neuroserpin is protective agains mild neonatal HIE (doi.org/10.3390/cells1…).



Today in @Nature we report a new prime editing strategy that can rescue a common cause of many genetic diseases in a disease-agnostic manner. This approach converts a redundant endogenous tRNA into an optimized suppressor tRNA, enabling a single prime edit to rescue premature stop codons across different diseases. (1/15) drive.google.com/file/d/1bSvkJW…









SPECIAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR - PROFESSOR ZAAL KOKAIA: Reprogrammed neurons and oligodendrocytes for brain repair after stroke talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3429b… Thursday, 11th December at 4pm - Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Sherrington Library



BREAKING NEWS❗ NIH establishes nation's first dedicated organoid development center to reduce reliance on animal modeling. bit.ly/4pBYT9T




A pair of papers on using holographic optogenetics and compressed sensing for connectomics Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing nature.com/articles/s4159…

