Scientists have bred spiders that weave red draglines, proving that the animals’ silk can be genetically re-engineered.

Presenting at Technology Networks’<i/> Cell and Gene Therapy 2025 Symposium, Dr. Andrew Mancini, senior corporate development ...

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing exploits the CRISPR-Cas system to modify a genome in a targeted manner. Guided by RNA, the Cas9 endonuclease breaks DNA at a target sequence. Imprecise repair of the ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, doctors have successfully treated a baby boy with a life-threatening genetic disorder using ...

In late 2024, Bill Gates sparked outrage in India after describing the country as “a kind of laboratory to try things” during ...

A first patient has been treated in a trial of an Allergan and Editas drug based on CRISPR/Cas9, a technology that ... but using CRISPR its sequence can be edited to restore its normal function ...

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

Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme ...

In a world first, scientists used CRISPR to fix a baby's unique genetic mutation. The report offers hope for personalized ...

TAHITI couples CRISPR with transposable elements from plants to edit cash crops such as corn and soybean with reduced ...

G ene therapy has always held enormous promise to correct genetic diseases, but turning that potential into treatments has ...

In May of that year, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, filed its first patent application in the U.S. for CRISPR-Cas9. In December, a different team at the Broad Institute of MIT ...