Stanford researchers and their collaborators have revealed a new device that could change the way scientists conduct ...

As CRISPR continues to drive breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture, and synthetic biology, understanding its origins does more than tell an ancient story. It provides a blueprint for engineering the ...

CRISPR-Cas systems are adaptive immune systems found in prokaryotes that defend against invading nucleic acids through CRISPR ...

Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is ...

Researchers have identified a new gene-editing system similar to CRISPR in complex organisms, demonstrating for the first time that DNA-modifying proteins exist across all kingdoms of life. Feng Zhang ...

The CRISPR gene editing system holds tremendous promise. It has already revolutionized biomedical research and ... | Genetics And Genomics ...

Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced ...

Researchers have revealed new details about the CRISPR-Cas5-HNH/Cascade complex, a variant of the type I-E CRISPR-Cas system, providing insights into its DNA recognition and cleavage mechanisms. The ...

The colonies of Escherichia coli sitting in this petri dish become pathogenic when they carry Shiga toxin genes. Credit: Shutterstock “We’re essentially converting a pathogenic strain into a ...

Like the find-and-replace feature of a word processor, CRISPR-based engineering allows scientists to quickly and efficiently edit DNA sequences with base pair precision. Lauded as the great ...

That’s why a team from UC San Diego in La Jolla set out with Yale University researchers to develop a new system for gene ...