But it turns out that CRISPR systems have more than one strategy in their toolkit. A mechanism originally discovered in bacteria, where it has operated as an adaptive immune system for eons, CRISPR is ...

Inside cells, DNA twists and coils itself into a variety of different secondary structures—including i-motifs (iMs) and ...

Researchers have used CRISPR to switch back on a gene that vanished from the human lineage roughly 20 million years ago, ...

We went to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to get the lowdown on the CRISPR gene-editing patent dispute. Read C&EN’s coverage here: http://cen.acs.org/articles ...

Jennifer Doudna wears a black blazer and stands with folded arms in front of an indoor glass window. Jennifer Doudna helped discover the gene editing technology CRISPR and has made many contributions ...

Twisted graphene precisely aligned with gold nanodisks and coupled with CRISPR achieves attomolar detection of cancer biomarkers, revealing a new path for low light molecular diagnostics. (Nanowerk ...

Imagine if you could fix a spelling mistake in a long document with just one click. Now, imagine doing the same with the genetic code of a plant or even a human cell. That’s ...

BEIJING — In a mostly empty coworking office on the outskirts of China's capital, a scientist whose name is etched in history is trying to stage a comeback. He Jiankui announced nearly five years ago ...

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins are core components of fast-evolving therapeutic gene editing tools. Scientists have used CRISPR ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world the importance of biotechnology diagnostic and therapeutic tools. From detecting the virus to creating a vaccine, companies around the world are relying on ...

CRISPR-Cas9 has long been likened to a kind of genetic scissors, thanks to its ability to snip out any desired section of DNA with elegant precision. “It’s a completely brand-new type of CRISPR ...