A team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific ...

Recent IVG breakthroughs bring gene-edited human embryos closer, with CRISPR-Cas9 making heritable gene editing a reality ...

Gene editing technologies have cemented their place as a valued method in the biological toolkit used by researchers around the globe.

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...

Ar­bor Biotech­nolo­gies, a start­up found­ed by CRISPR pi­o­neer Feng Zhang nine years ago, has closed a $73.9 mil­lion Se­ries C fi­nanc­ing to bring its first … ...

State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition & Safety, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin 300457, P. R. China Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology (Ministry of Education), ...

Researchers designed a CRISPR-based test that rapidly detects low levels of pathogen genetic material in blood. This is done without the need for nucleic acid amplification. In CRISPR/Cas-based ...

CRISPR-Cas9 burst onto the broader scientific scene in 2012 when a team led by Jennifer Doudna showed that it could be modified to target and cut specific segments of DNA. The CRISPR half of the ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response.