Since Emmanuelle and Jennifer published their 2012 paper on CRISPR/Cas9, researchers have used these genetic scissors to create drought-resistant plants and look for new gene-based cancer therapies.

Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume. They also have a "superpower" in the field: they are able to fix nitrogen ...

While achieving the Nobel Prize spotlight would have been enough to impress, CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing is part of a growing list of technologies granted Investigational New Drug (IND) applications ...

The scientists used the nanoparticles to send a message to the CRISPR enzyme Cas9 to target cancer cells and act “as a molecular scissors” to slice the cell’s DNA, killing it. The ...

combining the 'molecular scissors' gene-editing technology of CRISPR-Cas9 techniques with its own protein engineering and disease knowledge. The JV will focus on discovering and developing new ...

Cas9 acts like a pair of “molecular scissors” and cuts the DNA. (Courtesy of Stanley Qi) CRISPRKit works in a similar way, though it employs dCas9, or “dead” Cas9, a deactivated version of ...

The CRISPR-Cas9 system offers groundbreaking genome editing capabilities, yet off-target cleavage raises concerns about ...

Their discovery, known as Crispr-Cas9 "genetic scissors", is a way of making specific and precise changes to the DNA contained in living cells. They will split the prize money of 10 million krona ...

By Balambal Suryanarayanan CRISPR-Cas9 is a repurposed gene editing tool that allows scientists to cut, replace, and insert pieces of DNA in precise regions along the strand. Courtesy of NIH Image ...

Since Emmanuelle and Jennifer published their 2012 paper on CRISPR/Cas9, researchers have used these genetic scissors to create drought-resistant plants and look for new gene-based cancer therapies.

A UCO team has applied the genome editing technique, which garnered a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020, to unravel the ...