In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the ...

CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful gene editing system that has revolutionized our ability to treat disease and probe the human genome. CRISPR has been used to edit the genomes of animals, plants, and microbes ...

Beginning a chain of events that will presumably lead to the origin of our universe's Spider-Man, researchers in Germany have ...

SCIENTISTS have created a spliced chimera monkey with glowing green eyes and fingers in a "Frankenscience" world first. The alien-like species was created by the Chinese Academy of Sciences using ...

When researchers used CRISPR “epigenome editing” to dial down a cholesterol-associated gene in monkeys, the animals’ blood levels of heart-disease-causing LDL, or “bad” cholesterol ...

China has unveiled the world's first living 'chimeric' monkey - an animal created in a lab using special cells - which has glowing yellow fingertips and fluorescent green eyes. The bizarre ...

Researchers have previously made fluorescent rodents, monkeys ... “frivolous” uses of CRISPR a decade ago when the technology was in its infancy. The company’s glowing rabbits will be ...