A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

For the first time, Professor Veyrier and his team at INRS have discovered a family of enzymes that can cut specific sequences in single-stranded DNA. These enzymes, called site-specific ...

says Modell. The Johns Hopkins investigators say bacteria have long been known to use CRISPR-Cas systems to chop up phage DNA, break it down and get rid of it. Crucially, CRISPR systems can only ...

says Modell. The Johns Hopkins investigators say bacteria have long been known to use CRISPR-Cas systems to chop up phage DNA, break it down and get rid of it. Crucially, CRISPR systems can only ...

Crucially, CRISPR systems can only destroy DNA that matches a "memory" captured from a prior infection and stored within the bacteria's own genome, say the researchers. In this way, the CRISPR ...

Learn about Brink Therapeutics as it raises $4 million to go beyond CRISPR with engineered recombinases in CAR T therapy.

The researchers analyzed changes to gene expression in ecDNA formed by HPV and human DNA hybridization in oropharyngeal tumor ...

The $5,000 equipment grant from the Education Foundation of Kennebunk and Arundel has transformed how students learn ...

Lincoln police say after the woman couldn’t find what she was looking for, she ran to the front of the store and caused chaos on her way out.

Doudna and Charpentier won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 technique, a method of ...