When the CRISPR Cas9 protein is added to a cell along with a piece of guide RNA, the Cas9 protein hooks up with the guide RNA and then moves along the strands of DNA until it finds and binds to a ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into ...

Using gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9, the team has been able to study these proteins without altering ... Dec. 13, 2024 — Microorganisms produce a wide variety of natural products that can be ...

A team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet has developed a novel tool for genetic research. The study, published in ...

To manipulate the gut microbiome of a mouse at the species level, Turnbaugh and his team chose the CRISPR-Cas9 system, a type II CRISPR system ... specific edits in microbial communities,” Cress ...

Human extracellular matrices can be edited in their composition using the CRISPR/Cas9 system, leading to materials exhibiting tailored regenerative capacities.

A research team investigates how genome editing can be harnessed to accelerate cassava breeding and improve key traits.

For decades, farmers have faced a trade-off between size and flavor when growing tomatoes and eggplants. The hefty tomatoes stacked in supermarkets today may be impressive in size, but many consumers ...

Expanding CRISPR's Potential Since its discovery, CRISPR (“Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats”), which ...

"So, our goal was to figure out what the specific functions of those four copies of the gene that synthesize that enzyme were," explained ... decided to use the CRISPR/Cas9 tool with which we ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...