USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced on January 23, 2025, that it is reinstating its legacy ...

Gene editing techniques may eventually allow trisomy to be treated at the cellular level, according to an in vitro ...

Africa is grappling with severe food insecurity in the wake of consecutive droughts, climate change, and ongoing conflicts, ...

Human life depends on plants and crop production, with seeds serving as the primary source of nutrition for both humans and livestock. Currently, three ...

Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume ...

When the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 rocketed to fame more than a decade ago, it transformed biotechnology. Faster, cheaper, and safer than previous methods, the tool helped scientists gain insight ...

The CRISPR-Cas9 system offers groundbreaking genome editing capabilities, yet off-target cleavage raises concerns about ...

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing exploits the CRISPR-Cas ... highlighting its potential as an efficient and precise tool for gene editing applications. Establishment and robust expansion of human ...

By Balambal Suryanarayanan CRISPR-Cas9 is a repurposed gene editing tool that allows scientists to cut, replace, and insert pieces of DNA in precise regions along the strand. Courtesy of NIH Image ...

In the spring, five patients with sickle cell disease began treatment with Casgevy, the first FDA-approved CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing treatment. The therapy—which involves removing blood stem ...

The discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool won two researchers, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. Exa-cel, also called Casgevy, involves ...