Prime editing system offers wide range of versatility in human cells, correcting disease-causing genetic variations A team from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new CRI... 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
Synthetic biologists add tunable, analog-to-digital converter to their toolkit Synthetic biologists have added high-precision analog-to-digital signal processing to the genetic circuitry of... Read more
Computational method helps scientists examine microbes at a larger, more comprehensive scale than previously possible During the Zika virus outbreak of 2015–16, public health officials scram... Read more
These cells appear to be the primary source of activity of the gene responsible for multiorgan disease n separate studies published online today in Nature, two independent research teams rep... 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
