The successful development of the revolutionary gene-editing technology called CRISPR won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute, and Jennifer ...

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

These horses might look like ordinary horses, but there is something highly unusual about their genomes. They are the first of their species to have their DNA edited using CRISPR–Cas9, a technique ...

The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool to spiders. Following the genetic modification, the spiders ...

Newly discovered weapons of bacterial self-defense take different approaches to achieving the same goal: preventing a virus from spreading through the bacterial population. Every living creature on ...

Astrocytic GABA transporter 3 is essential for preserving the integrity of neuronal population dynamics in accurately encoding and representing sensory information.

A baby born with a rare and devastating genetic condition has become the first person ever to be successfully treated with a personalized CRISPR therapy. After receiving three doses of the therapy in ...

A gene called SDR42E1 has been identified as a key player in how our bodies absorb and process vitamin D. Researchers found that disabling this gene in colorectal cancer cells not only crippled their ...

Genetic editing holds promise to treat incurable diseases, but the most popular method—CRISPR—sometimes does more harm than good. A new study from University of California San Diego and Yale ...