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, ...

Why insects aren’t massive. Research Article : Snelling et al. 11:39 Research Highlights. Nature: Faster tickin ...

In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally ...

The powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR–Cas9 might offer a way to make safer, more effective cancer-fighting immune cells ...

CRISPR is a powerful DNA-editing tool that has underpinned huge advancements in human health care in the last decade. It is a ...

Researchers revealed a CRISPR system that activates gene expression rather than cutting DNA, using RNA-guided targeting. The ...

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 ...

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

I was born in Washington, DC, in 1964, the oldest of three sisters, but the place that truly formed me as a scientist was Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Growing up there, far from the mainland ...

Gene editing is a numbers game. For any genetic tweaks to have notable impact, a sufficient number of targeted cells need to have the disease-causing gene deleted or replaced. Despite a growing ...

Last year’s federal agency layoffs, grant discontinuations, and university funding cuts led to numerous warnings of the disastrous impact on U.S. science research. Gretchen Goldman, PhD, from the ...