Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double ...

Scientists in Japan have used gene-editing technology to remove the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, at least ...

Genetic repair via CRISPR can inadvertently introduce other defects, researchers show. ... It is caused by the absence of two letters, called bases, in the DNA sequence of the NCF1 gene.

MIT’s CRISPR sensor detects cancer and HIV for 50 cents and stays effective for two months without refrigeration.

In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations ...

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...

Once a cut is made, it is a multistep, imperfect process of cellular DNA repair. CRISPR can be used to make other types of edits too, such as increasing or decreasing the effects of a gene ...

The personalized CRISPR treatment could be the future of gene therapy, but hurdles remain before everyone has access.

In the recent studies, scientists describe jumping gene systems that, in a process the teams are alternatively calling bridge editing and seekRNA, can be modified to cut, paste, and flip any DNA ...

The investigators used CRISPR along with an enzyme called Cas13. While this enzyme can cut DNA, the researchers altered it. “Cas13 naturally acts like a pair of scissors, but we engineered it to act ...

Plant genome editing through CRISPR-Cas holds transformative potential, yet its precision remains hampered by low gene targeting (GT) efficiency. This study presents a strategy to enhance CRISPR ...