The growing threat of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is calling upon researchers to find alternative ways to treat these infections. Cue CRISPR-Cas technology. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is ...
Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is ...
St. Georges Technical High School students using CRISPR in a Box. On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a sickle cell disease drug called Casgevy, co-developed by Vertex ...
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Big News in Genetics! Japanese Scientists Remove the Extra Chromosome Causing Down Syndrome
How does the CRISPR Down Syndrome breakthrough work to remove the extra chromosome 21? We are closer than ever to a world where a genetic condition affecting one in every 700 babies could be addressed ...
When scientists discovered how bacteria protect themselves against viral invaders, called phages, in the early 2000s, little did they know they’d stumbled upon a revolutionary tool researchers could ...
Natural systems such as CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs) offer a targetable, one-step way to edit genomes. However, ...
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Small Nuclear RNA Base Editing a Safer Alternative to CRISPR, UC San Diego Researchers Find
CRISPR — short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — is a method of genetic editing that uses RNA and bacterial proteins to edit DNA. It was adapted from a method used by ...
That’s why a team from UC San Diego in La Jolla set out with Yale University researchers to develop a new system for gene ...
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