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16December, 2025

OTS Member Highlight – Dr. Rebecca Miles

December 16th, 2025|Categories: Featured Perspectives On Current Science|

The incoming OTS President, Dr. Rebecca Miles, has always been curious about the way things work, and in high school, a human anatomy and physiology class sparked her passion for researching human diseases. As the first person in her family to pursue higher education, she was initially unsure which career would be the best path for understanding the human ...

2December, 2025

Small Nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) Enhance RNA Base Editing

December 2nd, 2025|Categories: Featured Perspectives On Current Science|

Gene editing technologies are transforming molecular medicine, offering unprecedented potential to treat — and even cure — a range of genetic disorders. However, as tools like CRISPR enter clinical settings, concerns about its safety, specificity, and long-term side effects, such as off-target edits or increased cancer risk, have prompted scientists to improve the technology or find alternatives. With these ...

18November, 2025

Leveraging Nature’s Carrier: Albumin-Binding Dendritic siRNA for Enhanced Tumor Targeting

November 18th, 2025|Categories: Perspectives on Current Science|

Small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics are rapidly reshaping the landscape of precision medicine, offering the ability to silence disease-driving genes with exceptional specificity and durability. However, due to delivery barriers, the promise of siRNA therapy has largely been confined to the liver. Recent advances and mounting efforts are being poured into expanding siRNAs extrahepatically, to enable therapies for diseases ...

15October, 2025

Newly Approved Drug Shows Clinical and Quality-of-Life Improvements for HAE Patients

October 15th, 2025|Categories: Perspectives on Current Science|

Emily Wheeler was 19 when she noticed a gradual swelling in her left foot. Believing it was an allergic reaction, she went to her doctor, who told her it was gout and gave her several pills. An hour later, she started vomiting uncontrollably and had excruciating abdominal pain. She went to the hospital, where they stopped her vomiting, and ...

7October, 2025

OTS Member Highlight – Dr. Richard Geary

October 7th, 2025|Categories: Perspectives on Current Science|

Dr. Richard Geary, current OTS President, has always been passionate about health and finding ways to improve people's well-being. Born with a rare disease, he was in the medical spotlight at a young age; now, he’s known for his incredible contributions to the scientific field and his enduring work as the executive vice president and chief development officer at ...

2October, 2025

Binding and Ligand Activation Driven Enrichment–Directed Evolution of SaCas9 gRNAs Improves Gene Editing Efficiency

October 2nd, 2025|Categories: Open Access NAT, Perspectives on Current Science|

Authors: Telmo Llanga, Korie Bush, Ying Sun, Amy Yan, Jonathan Zhou, Jan Gorodkin, and Bruce A. Sullenger AbstractClustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-based editing is inefficient at over two-thirds of genetic targets. A primary cause is ribonucleic acid (RNA) misfolding that can occur between the spacer and scaffold regions of the gRNA, which hinders the formation of functional Cas9 ribonucleoprotein ...

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