Process marks the first time researchers have delivered CRISPR/Cas9 repressors for targeted therapeutic gene silencing in adult animal models Biomedical engineers at Duke University have use... Read more
New technique developed by UAlberta researchers vastly improves precision of gene-editing technology. Imagine a future where a guided biomachine put into your body seeks out defective gene s... Read more
The bacterial immune system “CRISPR-Cas9” is known to eliminate invading DNA. Würzburg scientists now discovered that it can also readily target RNA – a result with potentially far-reaching... Read more
Deleting a single gene from mosquitoes can make them highly resistant to the malaria parasite and thus much less likely to transmit the parasite to humans, according to a new paper from scie... Read more
Fragile X syndrome is the most frequent cause of intellectual disability in males, affecting 1 out of 3600 boys born. For the first time, researchers at Whitehead Institute have restored act... Read more
Patients’ individual genomes may affect efficacy, safety of gene editing Gene editing has begun to be tested in clinical trials, using CRISPR-Cas9 and other technologies to directly ed... Read more
Approach could also be applied to reversing aging and age-related diseases such as hearing loss and macular degeneration Salk scientists have created a new version of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome... Read more
New delivery system developed by MIT team deletes disease-causing genes and reduces cholesterol. In a new study, MIT researchers have developed nanoparticles that can deliver the CRISPR geno... Read more
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology inside cells and have demonstrated in mice that the technology... Read more
What’s your story, morning glory? Scientists use CRISPR technology to change flower colour in an ornamental plant In a world-first, Japanese scientists have used the revolutionary CRISPR, or... Read more
Scientists achieve first safe repair of single-gene mutation in human embryos Scientists have, for the first time, corrected a disease-causing mutation in early stage human embryos with gene... Read more
New CRISPR technology takes cells to the movies Researchers use expensive machinery to develop ways to harness DNA as a synthetic raw material to store large amounts of digital information o... Read more
A new molecular scissors act like a GPS to improve genome editing Researchers from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), led by the Spanish researcher Guillermo Montoya, have discovered ho... Read more
As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the... Read more
Living cells must constantly process information to keep track of the changing world around them and arrive at an appropriate response. Through billions of years of trial and error, evolutio... Read more
