To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

Over the past two decades, the immune system has attracted increasing attention for its role in fighting cancer. As researchers have learned more and more about the cancer-immune system interplay, ...

Thanks to CRISPR, our medical specialists will soon have unprecedented control over how they treat and prevent some of our most challenging genetic disorders and diseases. CRISPR (Clustered Regularly ...

With such striking effects, many scientists see modulating the microbiomes as a promising avenue for improving human health and wellbeing. In recent years, researchers have shown that tweaking the ...

Drug resistance has long turned some of the most advanced lung cancer therapies into temporary victories, with tumors ...

Scientists introduced CRISPR to the world as a gene-editing tool in summer 2012, when landmark papers from two independent groups demonstrated how the system could be wielded to make cuts in DNA. Now, ...

The second tool is the CRISPR-Cas9 system, which allows easy and precise editing of any region of the genome. When it comes to traditional immortalized cell lines, such as HeLa or HEK293, cutting with ...

Early CRISPR treatment showed major cholesterol reduction in just two weeks * High-dose therapy led to about a fifty percent ...

A rare disease mom and scientist shares on the "First Opinion Podcast" how she serves as a translator between her two ...

We here at STAT cover CRISPR a lot. But it’s not every day we get to cover Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The Rock and the genome-editing technology meet in a new movie, “Rampage,” coming out Friday.

Researchers used CRISPR to change the number of chromosomes in Arabidopsis by fusing chromosome arms, reducing the genome ...

UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable ...