You've probably heard of CRISPR, a fairly new tool for gene editing. But how does the technology work?. | Credit: Love Employee via Getty Images CRISPR, short for CRISPR-Cas9, is a genome-editing tool ...

This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from Russia and the US have shown that the two components of the bacterial CRISPR-Cas immunity system, one that destroys foreign genetic elements such as ...

Type V and VI CRISPR/Cas systems have emerged as promising cutting-edge diagnostic tools for nucleic acid detection. Nevertheless, the challenge of low target concentrations necessitates ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

A historic pandemic continues to rage, and it isn’t getting the attention it deserves given the virus’s toll. The outbreak in this case isn’t COVID-19, but a vicious iteration of the avian flu. But ...

In July 2019, Victoria Gray woke up in a sunlit, pale green hospital room at Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville. A frozen bag of her genetically edited blood cells thawed by her bed. Gray, a ...

CRISPR gene editing machinery holds the potential to transform the treatment of numerous diseases, but it requires effective delivery systems to get into tissues and ...

The immune system plays a crucial role in fighting tumors and metastases. Consequently, it is decisive to conduct cancer research in mouse models with an immune system that is as natural as possible – ...