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 t... 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... 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 o... 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 mom... 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 mutati... 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 ad... 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 revolu... 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 ne... 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... 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 r... 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... 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... 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... 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 h... 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 imp... Read more
