The discovery of Cat1 reveals how CARF effectors use complex structures to inhibit viral replication, advancing our ...

Newly discovered weapons of bacterial self-defense take different approaches to achieving the same goal: preventing a virus from spreading through the bacterial population.

For years, the CRISPR-Cas9 genome technology has been reshaping genetic engineering, a precision tool to transform everything ...

Explore how CRISPR could become a powerful antiviral tool against HIV, Hepatitis B, HPV, and more, based on emerging research.

Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce ...

Bacteria are no different. And despite their relative simplicity, they deploy remarkably savvy defensive strategies against viral invaders. The most well-known is CRISPR-Cas9, adapted for human use as ...

But prokaryotes like bacteria generally can’t make the same kind of repairs, so it’s difficult to manipulate them with CRISPR-Cas9. “That actually represents a pretty fundamental difference ...

CRISPR, short for CRISPR-Cas9, is a genome-editing tool that allows ... The gene-editing system was originally discovered in bacteria, where it limits infections by clipping viral DNA.

In 2012, scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier replicated this mechanism found in microbes to develop a ...

A team of researchers from University of Bayreuth have used genetic modification on common house spiders to study the underrepresented organism and produce functionable spider silk protein. Scroll to ...

MIT 0. In the latest skirmish between West Coast and East Coast over the #1 disruptive biotechnology, CRISPR, it is advantage ...

On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a long-awaited decision in Regents of the University of California v.