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.

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

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.

In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages ... catalog hundreds of thousands of new DNA memories that the CRISPR Cas9 system had created from the test phages, honing in on those ...

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.

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.

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

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

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 ...