"Field tests showed significantly higher yields." Officials make game-changing announcement that could flood grocery shelves ...

CRISPR is revolutionizing medicine by enabling precise DNA edits, treating genetic diseases like sickle cell anemia and ...

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing articles from across Nature Portfolio. Atom; RSS Feed; Definition. CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing exploits the CRISPR-Cas system to modify a genome in a targeted manner.

A recent study involving researchers from the University of Basel reveals that slowing down the intracellular transport of ...

Professor Hirohide Saito (Department of Life Science Frontiers at CiRA / The University of Tokyo) and Assistant Professor ...

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

Bao noted a 2018 Nature Biotechnology paper indicated the presence of large deletions. ... due to CRISPR-Cas9 systems designed for treating sickle cell disease," he said.

The gene editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 has allowed researchers to make precise and impactful changes to an organism's DNA to fix mutations that cause genetic disease.

A new variation of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system makes it easier to re-engineer massive quantities of cells for therapeutic applications. The approach, developed at Gladstone Institutes and UC ...

Cambridge-driven research has identified a novel target with therapeutic potential for metastatic eye melanoma — an ...

In a new study published in Nature titled, “ Custom CRISPR-Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning,” researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases.But to date this ...