What’s really exciting about gene editing is precision and speed, says Pairwise cofounder and CEO Tom Adams, PhD.

CRISPR technology has revolutionised genetic engineering, offering unprecedented precision in DNA editing with vast implications for medicine, agriculture and conservation. Yet, its power demands ...

Among other functions, the NK cells (natural killers, a type of lymphocyte forming part of the immune system) have the capacity to detect and eliminate cancer cells. But in some cases they cannot ...

Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...

Quietly working in his office at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Zhaowen Luo focuses on creating intricate animations ...

The genetic modification of the Natural Killer (NK) cells, lymphocytes forming part of the body’s immune system, would make it possible to retain their capacity of eliminating tumour cells in solid ...

CRISPR/Cas9 allows for precise modifications to the genome ... and enhance tissue functions. For example, in the treatment of monogenic diseases like cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, and ...

Climate change is rapidly altering the agricultural landscape, leaving farmers scrambling to adjust. As temperatures rise, ...

Glioblastoma (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer, is one of the greatest challenges for medicine, both ...

For example, DNA methylation suppresses viral transcription ... and employing gene-editing technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 to disrupt cccDNA. These innovative approaches offer the potential to ...

To find out, collaborators at the Boyce Thomson Institute used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology to tweak one ... gene paralogs in the forest nightshade native to Australia, for example, resulted in ...