A team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific ...

Recent IVG breakthroughs bring gene-edited human embryos closer, with CRISPR-Cas9 making heritable gene editing a reality ...

A consortium of EU-based scientists and bioethicists raise concerns about the implications and threats of artificial ...

Gene editing technologies have cemented their place as a valued method in the biological toolkit used by researchers around the globe.

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 ...