Researchers at Cornell University have developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently developed CRISPR-based genetic technique in fruit ...

Novel CRISPR-Cas9 treatments are proving effective in reversing disease for life. But ensuring their long-term safety will ...

Researchers at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine have developed an exosome-based platform, "safeEXO-Cas," that significantly enhances the delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing components ...

When scientists discovered how bacteria protect themselves against viral invaders, called phages, in the early 2000s, little did they know they’d stumbled upon a revolutionary tool researchers could ...

Cas9 is directed to its target within the DNA sequence through the use of the guide RNA. A specific sequence of DNA that is between two and five nucleotides in length must align with the 3’ end of the ...

The CEO of Caszyme, a biotech company in Vilnius, Lithuania, presented details of Cas12l, a novel compact Cas nuclease with a variety of potential research and therapeutic applications.

In December 2020, the New England Journal of Medicine published a paper titled CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing for Sickle Cell Disease and β-Thalassemia, marking an exciting new chapter in the treatment of ...