Today’s mass-produced tomatoes often grow to palm-sized proportions, but their naturally occurring ancestors were far smaller ...

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich combined two CRISPR-Cas methods to decipher how mutations in a cell’s genome affect its function.

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

Adapted from a news release by the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley.The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to ...

Cancer continues to be a formidable challenge globally, with traditional drug discovery methods focusing on cytotoxic agents and targeted therapies altering the landscape of cancer prognosis and ...

Researchers discovered that the CRISPR-Cas10 system not only cuts viral DNA but also produces toxic cyclic-oligoadenylates ...

Cas9, cuts any RNA or DNA it recognizes as foreign, and thereby protects bacteria from viral attacks. Another CRISPR system, one that is relatively obscure, protects bacteria in an entirely different ...

CRISPR-Cas9 has long been likened to a kind of genetic scissors, thanks to its ability to snip out any desired section of DNA ...

"It's a completely brand-new type of CRISPR chemistry," says co-first author Christian Baca, a TPCB graduate student in the Marraffini lab. "It's more evidence that CRISPR systems have an array of ...

Intellia Therapeutics has taken another step toward its goal of winning the first approval for an in vivo CRISPR therapy, linking its hereditary angioedema (HAE) prospect to an 81% reduction in ...