GW researchers successfully used CRISPR/Cas9 to limit the impact of schistosomiasis and liver fluke infection, affecting more than a quarter of a billion people in Southeast Asia, sub-Sahara... Read more
Experimental Rice U. therapy could repair mutations that cause genetic diseases A new technology that relies on a moth-infecting virus and nanomagnets could be used to edit defective genes t... Read more
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute have discovered that CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing can cause greater genetic damage in cells than was previously thought. These results create safety i... Read more
The Salk approach, tested in a mouse model, points to cheaper and more effective treatments for humans For most people with hemophilia B, whose bodies can’t properly form blood clots, consta... Read more
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
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
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
Here’s a question that occurs only to madmen and geneticists: How do you get a gene that kills an organism to spread through a whole population of that organism? You can either make your gen... Read more
If efficiently and safely scaled up in DMD patients, this technique could lead to one of the first successful genome editing-based treatments for this fatal disease, researchers said. DMD, t... Read more