Northwestern scientists have developed a new nanostructure that supercharges CRISPR’s ability to safely and efficiently enter cells, potentially unlocking its full power to treat genetic diseases. By ...

Researchers engineered and screened dozens of base editors to precisely target a single mutation without editing other portions of the DNA.

Researchers have identified a new gene-editing system similar to CRISPR in complex organisms, demonstrating for the first time that DNA-modifying proteins exist across all kingdoms of life. Feng Zhang ...

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Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants.

Researchers engineered a CRISPR base editor to correct the ACTA2 mutation causing multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction ...

A study, published in the journal Frontiers in Genome Editing, outlines a method for editing single plant cells from sterile ...

More than a decade ago, scientists harnessed a bacterial molecular machine that identifies and cuts specific sections of DNA, revolutionizing the ability to edit genes ...

The colonies of Escherichia coli sitting in this petri dish become pathogenic when they carry Shiga toxin genes. Credit: Shutterstock “We’re essentially converting a pathogenic strain into a ...

A CRISPR system detects rare cancer mutations in blood with single-nucleotide precision, outperforming ddPCR through ...

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