Allergies are most associated with the fur and dander that cats shed into the environment, but those aren’t the true culprit. A protein produced by cats called Fel d 1—which ends up in their ...

But what if there were a way to make allergy-free peanuts? This could soon be a possibility, thanks to the genome editing technology CRISPR/Cas9, which provides a cheap and easy way to modify the ...

The domestic cat is the most common source of mammalian allergen, with cat allergies affecting up to 15% of adults and children. While common treatments (e.g. antihistamines) are limited to ...

Her strategy, as she described it to Inverse, is simple: Take a peanut plant, identify the genes that encode the major allergens, send CRISPR in to cut them out, then breed a new crop devoid of ...

Researchers at InBio (formerly Indoor Biotechnologies), a biotech company in Virginia, report progress en route to developing a hypoallergenic cat – or at least treating patients with allergies ...

Rather than silencing allergens, the goal is to use CRISPR to delete the peanut plant’s production of those allergens, said IngateyGen co-founder and president Hortense Dodo, Ph.D., speaking ...

Thanks to CRISPR gene-editing technology, truly hypoallergenic cats could soon steal people's hearts and safely curl up on their laps without triggering sneezes, itchy eyes or other allergy symptoms.

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Their ultimate goal, though, is to develop a treatment for cats whereby an injection of a CRISPR therapy would cause the cats’ bodies to stop producing Fel d 1, thereby making them hypoallergenic.

Allergen exposure can lead to hospitalization, especially for people with peanut allergies. "For others, avoiding wheat and peanuts is not easy due to geographical, cultural, or economic reasons ...

The new gene-editing technology called CRISPR/Cas9 might even come to the rescue, delivering the ultimate dream to those who can afford it: a cat that doesn’t produce allergens at all.

It’s an exciting time for the allergy field, experts say. Here’s what to know about what causes food allergies—and the new research that may help us cope with them.