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

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

Scientists at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have re-engineered ...

IscBs are a type of OMEGA system, the evolutionary ancestors to Cas9, which is part of the bacterial CRISPR system that Zhang and others have developed into powerful genome-editing tools.

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