For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

CRISPR-Cas systems help to protect bacteria from viruses. Several different types of CRISPR-Cas defense systems are found in bacteria, which differ in their composition and functions. Among them ...

The CRISPR-Cas gene scissors offer a wide range of potential applications, from the treatment of genetic diseases to antiviral therapies and diagnostics. However, to safely harness their powers ...

In 2017, the four of them launched Mammoth Biosciences in a small lab in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, with the aim of turning CRISPR’s pair of molecular scissors to a whole suite of ...

RNA gene scissors (CRISPR-Cas13) are gaining significant attention as a next-generation gene therapy with fewer side effects. They can suppress infection by eliminating viral RNA, such as in ...

Scientists are taking CRISPR scissors to Alzheimer’s and at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, researchers got a sneak peak.

CRISPR: "CRISPR" stands for "clusters of regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats." ... The enzyme, called "CRISPR-associated protein 9," or Cas9, is essentially a pair of molecular scissors.

CRISPR-Cas12a2 - A New Kind of Gene Scissors. WRITTEN BY: Carmen Leitch 1. Microbes have long been engaged in an arms race for dominance, and they have molecular weapons and defense mechanisms. This ...

A ground-breaking twist to the CRISPR tool—aka "genetic scissors"—is being put to use to edit plant genomes by scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, signaling ...

CRISPR technology was first developed in 2012 and was based on the discovery of molecules that bacteria use to spot and destroy incoming viruses, known as phages. ... the CRISPR scissors.

CRISPR-Cas systems, defense systems in bacteria, have become a plentiful source of technologies for molecular diagnostics. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI ...

Guan-En Graham is determined to find out exactly what happened to her father. When she was a child, he developed brain cancer. Since then, she has worked to understand the intricate genetic mechanisms ...