A Peninsula biotech company raised $68 million from investors — including a venture philanthropy fund started by Lululemon ...

Expanding CRISPR's Potential Since its discovery, CRISPR (“Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats”), which ...

Yet others, called base editors, change one letter of the DNA code to another. So why do we call it CRISPR? Cas proteins are used by bacteria to destroy viral DNA. They add bits of viral DNA to ...

The blueprints for these molecules can be found in the ... CRISPR-Cas Technology: Balancing Efficiency and Safety Dec. 4, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered a serious side effect of using the ...

CRISPR-Cas systems are prokaryotic immune systems that confer resistance to foreign genetic elements such as plasmids and phages. CRISPR-Cas systems have been exploited for targeted genome editing.

Bioengineering professor and The Grainger College of Engineering's Dean, Rashid Bashir, led a team of researchers in a ...

Cas9, the first Cas protein repurposed for cutting DNA, introduces double-strand breaks that recruit DNA repair machinery. Despite its successes, the CRISPR-Cas9 system has several limitations, ...