A Cornell researcher, who is a leader in developing a new type of gene editing CRISPR system, and colleagues have used the new method for the first time in human cells – a major advance in t... Read more
CRISPR-based ‘allelic drive’ allows genetic editing with selective precision and broad implications New CRISPR-based gene drives and broader active genetics technologies are revolutionizing... Read more
A team of engineers at the UC Berkeley and the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) of The Claremont Colleges combined CRISPR with electronic transistors made from graphene to create a new hand-hel... Read more
An international team, including researchers from the University of Göttingen, argues in a perspective article recently published in “Science” that new plant breeding technologies can contri... Read more
The gene-editing technology known as CRISPR has attracted much excitement and investor interest with its potential to someday treat diseases by fixing faulty copies of genes. But recently, a... Read more
Genetic edits and protein restoration in mouse models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy remain viable one year after single CRISPR treatment Researchers at Duke University have shown that a sin... Read more
Technique Prevents Transplant Rejection in the Lab, a Major Advance for Stem Cell Therapies UC San Francisco scientists have used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system to create the first plur... Read more
A University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher and his collaborators at the University of California, San Francisco have repurposed the gene-editing tool CRISPR to study which genes are target... Read more
A weighty new study shows that CRISPR therapies can cut fat without cutting DNA. In a paper published Dec. 13, 2018, in the journal Science, UC San Francisco researchers describe how a modif... Read more
Enzyme can target almost half of the genome’s “ZIP codes” and could enable editing of many more disease-specific mutations. The genome editing system CRISPR has become a hugely important too... Read more
CHOP/Penn Medicine Team Shows first example of base-editing tool to treat a disease in utero in animal models For the first time, scientists have performed prenatal gene editing to prevent a... Read more
UT Southwestern researchers today report the first use of CRISPR genome-wide screening to identify a gene that helps cells resist flavivirus infection. That nasty class of pathogens includes... Read more
Gold nanoparticles carried Cas9 enzyme into brain, editing receptor and lessening burying behavior Scientists have used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to lessen some autism symptoms in mice with a... Read more
An international team of researchers has made CRISPR technology more accessible and standardized by simplifying its complex implementation. The simpler, faster CRISPR, which is presented in... Read more
A strip of paper can now indicate presence of pathogens, tumor DNA, or any genetic signature of interest. 100-fold greater sensitivity, the ability to detect multiple targets at once, and ot... Read more