STAT Madness Editors' Pick: CRISPR tools to treat brain disorders - STAT

STAT Madness Editors' Pick: CRISPR tools to treat brain disorders - STAT

Here are this year’s STAT Madness winners

SUSAN SHORE (RIGHT) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN WITH A POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN HER LAB. (BRYAN MCCULLOUGH/MICHIGAN MEDICINE/UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN)

The winners of the third annual STAT Madness — our tournament-style search for the most innovative research in science and medicine — were announced this morning. Here’s a look at the two winners:

• People’s choice: With 65% of the final round’s votes, Susan Shore and others from the University of Michigan led this year’s winning research: a potential treatment for the phantom noises that plague people with tinnitus. More here.  
• Editors’ pick: Our choice this year was research from Shawn Liu, Rudolf Jaenisch, and others at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., that used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the gene silencers — and not the genome itself — in fragile X syndrome. Read more about their work here.