Doudna and Charpentier won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 technique, a method of ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

She is the fourth woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. Biochemist Jennifer Doudna co-developed CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that has been called the discovery of the ...

As the race between U.S. and Chinese biotech companies heats up, the competition is particularly fierce in one field: CRISPR gene editing. China has rapidly emerged as a global leader in CRISPR ...

Although various methods of trait improvements in crops are available and are being used, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) ...

Researchers designed a CRISPR-based test that rapidly detects low levels of pathogen genetic material in blood. This is done without the need for nucleic acid amplification. In CRISPR/Cas-based ...

CRISPR-Cascade, including sample preparation, requires about half an hour, making it the fastest available bloodstream infection diagnostic. There is also the potential to improve sample prep ...