Smart materials change properties in response to specific DNA sequences; could be used in a variety of devices. The CRISPR genome-editing system is best-known for its potential to correct di... Read more
Researchers at ETH Zurich have refined the famous CRISPR-Cas method. Now, for the very first time, it is possible to modify dozens, if not hundreds, of genes in a cell simultaneously. Everyo... Read more
Technique could help diagnose, rectify a genetic defect with gene-editing tools such as CRISPR Scientists have devised a new computational method that reveals genetic patterns in the massive... Read more
A team led by researchers from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, has characterized and engineered a new gene-editing system that can p... Read more
A team of pain researchers in the Charles Perkins Centre studied the most venomous creature on earth to learn how venom works and what causes pain. Researchers at the University of Sydney h... Read more
The advance of science is something like the wandering of an explorer through an uncharted jungle. Often, the dense undergrowth can seem impenetrable, but at certain privileged moments, a cl... Read more
Using CRISPR gene editing, a team from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn Medicine have thwarted a lethal lung disease in an animal model in which a harmful mutation causes... Read more
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
