Most people who have heard of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (more commonly known as CRISPR) associate it with gene editing—the precise molecular scissors that allow ...

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the ...

Editas Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDIT), a pioneering gene editing company focused on developing transformative medicines for ...

Researchers identified hundreds of anti-CRISPR proteins in human gut phages, including a new dual-function family that blocks ...

Study shows GM gene-edited rice is not “substantially equivalent” to the parental non-edited rice. Report: Claire Robinson and Prof Michael Antoniou ...

A recent study utilizing cryo-EM advances our understanding of how bacterial immune systems function and reveals new aspects of CRISPR-Cas biology. Researchers at Vilnius University (Lithuania) have ...

Researchers have found that certain bacteria carry a naturally occurring system, built from repurposed CRISPR components, that switches genes on rather than cutting or silencing DNA. The discovery, ...

Researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) have edited the wheat genome using the CRISPR-Cas method, targeting the gene responsible for thermosensitive male sterility, ...

Genome editing-based therapies typically aim to treat disease by correcting underlying genetic mutations in patient’s cells. However, most genetic disorders are caused by dozens or even thousands of ...

Should we remind ourselves that the Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing tool is still considered an experimental technology? According to a U.S. study, significant and frequent mutations have ...

In a world-first experiment, scientists in Germany have used CRISPR-Cas9 to create genetically modified spiders that spin red ...