Maria Jasin, PhD, whose research on DNA repair has transformed our understanding of cancers, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Greengard Prize.

By leveraging the Protein Mutation Effect Predictor (ProMEP), AI-AncBE4max, a high-performance Cas9 variant with eight ...

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

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

Investigators have used base editing to create a treatment for multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome, which has ...

More than a decade ago, scientists harnessed a bacterial molecular machine that identifies and cuts specific sections of DNA, ...

Multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome (MSMDS) is a rare condition associated with stroke, aortic dissection (tearing) and death in childhood. Currently, there is no effective treatment or ...

They look like ordinary horses, with their honey brown coats and white patches. But these 10-month-old foals in Argentina are ...

A newly developed tool utilises AI to predict how cells repair their DNA after it is cut by gene editing tools such as CRISPR ...

Researchers have unveiled a new type of nanostructure that dramatically improves CRISPR delivery. Called lipid nanoparticle ...

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 ...