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    Pain in the neck: Engineers use CRISPR technology to Prevent Tissue Damage, resulting Chronic Pain

    March 13, 2017, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    University of Utah bioengineering assistant professor Robby Bowles and bioengineering doctoral student Niloofar Farhan are part of a team that has discovered a way to curb chronic pain by modulating genes that reduce tissue- and cell-damaging inflammation. The team is using the CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) system -- new technology of modifying human genetics -- to stop cell death and keep the cells from producing molecules that damage tissue and result in chronic pain. Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering

    University of Utah bioengineering assistant professor Robby Bowles and bioengineering doctoral student Niloofar Farhan are part of a team that has discovered a way to curb chronic pain by modulating genes that reduce tissue- and cell-damaging inflammation. The team is using the CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) system — new technology of modifying human genetics — to stop cell death and keep the cells from producing molecules that damage tissue and result in chronic pain. Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering

    For millions of sufferers, there is nothing more debilitating than chronic back or joint pain. It can feel like a lifetime of misery...

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