In 2020, Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology that allows scientists to precisely modify DNA by cutting it at specific locations.
Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing experiments. The technology, CRISPR-GPT, acts as a gene-editing "copilot" ...
Emerging gene editing platforms are revolutionizing precision medicine, enabling safe and effective genetic modifications for ...
Utah State University scientists recently unveiled a new type of CRISPR biotechnology with the ability to selectively target ...
"GenomePAM allows us to understand how well a CRISPR tool works and, crucially, considering all possible PAMs, how precise it might cut in the genome. That's essential for making gene editing ...
Humans had better be ready to play God. Because we’ve now got the tools to do just that. Credit the recent discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, a powerful gene-editing tool that gives scientists the ability to ...
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 ...
The rise of RNA viruses like SARS-CoV-2 highlights the need for new ways to fight them. RNA-targeting tools like CRISPR/Cas13 are powerful but inefficient in the cytoplasm of cells, where many RNA ...
A team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet has developed a novel tool for genetic research. The study, published in Nucleic Acids Research, introduces BLU-VIPR, a method that allows researchers to ...
Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) report that they have developed a new tool (Cas13d-NCS) that allows CRISPR RNA molecules that are located within the cell ...
CRISPR-COPIES has applications in synthetic biology toolkit characterization, gene therapy, and metabolic engineering. Credit: Aashutosh Boob et al. CRISPR/Cas systems have undergone tremendous ...