After Intellia Therapeutics paused a pair of phase 3 trials for its CRISPR therapy in response to a liver safety signal, the ...

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

Intellia Therapeutics will find it challenging to survive now that its CRISPR gene-editing treatment has been tied to severe, ...

The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR is promising to revolutionize medicine. Some researchers are trying to help make it available for people with very rare genetic disorders. A gene-editing ...

The CRISPR family’s most versatile member has made its medical debut: a cutting-edge gene-editing technique known as prime editing has been used to treat a person for the first time. The recipient is ...

In modern functional genomics, understanding how specific genes control cellular behavior requires both targeted intervention and high-resolution analysis. That’s where Perturb-Seq comes in—a method ...

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Intellia paused both trials after receiving a report of grade 4 liver enzymes and increased total bilirubin in a patient in ...

How can we grow enough food without destroying our planet in the process? Physical chemist Brad Ringeisen believes CRISPR may hold the key—by helping to develop climate-resilient crops. Brad Ringeisen ...

We performed both homology-based and GUIDE-seq nomination of candidate off-target sites, which resulted in the testing of 5002 sites from four healthy donors (not shown). We then nominated additional ...