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Journal Club: Using CRISPR to Prevent Coronavirus and Influenza Infection

Journal Club: Using CRISPR to Prevent Coronavirus and Influenza Infection

Released Friday, 15th May 2020
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Journal Club: Using CRISPR to Prevent Coronavirus and Influenza Infection

Journal Club: Using CRISPR to Prevent Coronavirus and Influenza Infection

Journal Club: Using CRISPR to Prevent Coronavirus and Influenza Infection

Journal Club: Using CRISPR to Prevent Coronavirus and Influenza Infection

Friday, 15th May 2020
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In this episode of a16z bio Journal Club, general partner Vijay Pande, bio deal team partner Andy Tran, and bio editor Lauren Richardson discuss a novel CRISPR-Cas-based anti-viral strategy.

The discussion covers the differences between this newly developed prophylactic strategy, traditional vaccines, and anti-viral drugs; how this strategy can be engineered to target a huge range of coronavirus and influenza strains; and the next steps needed to go from paper to practice:

a16z Journal Club (part of the a16z Podcast), curates and covers recent advances from the scientific literature -- what papers we’re reading, and why they matter from our perspective at the intersection of biology & technology (for bio journal club). You can find all these episodes at a16z.com/journalclub.

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