The invention has made it onto TIME’s 2025 Best Inventions list, in the food and drink category, and would be the first new ...

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of the Society for Science and Executive Publisher of Science News, spoke with David R. Liu, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of ...

Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is turned on, the production of proteins or other substances is promoted; when ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human ...

urning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is turned on, the production of proteins or other substances is promoted; when it's ...

The company is gene editing crops to make our food supply more resilient to climate change.

Significant advancements in gene silencing and gene editing offer new hope for treating rare disorders. Techniques like RNA ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua Modell of ...

Scientists have discovered a way to make gene editing safer and more precise — and it's an advance that could help bolster ...

Scientists are nearing a breakthrough in using CRISPR gene-editing to eliminate HIV from human DNA. Early trials of EBT-101 ...

One of the main weapons in a bacterium’s arsenal against phages is Cas9. The protein, well known for its use in the Nobel Prize–winning CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique, works like a pair of ...

In what could mark a historic leap in medical science, researchers are now closer than ever to developing a CRISPR-based ...