CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a natural defense system in bacteria that scientists have adapted into a powerful gene-editing tool. This ...

Most current approaches rely on adding nuclear localization signal (NLS) motifs to the ends of Cas9 to facilitate nuclear entry. However, this method is inefficient, and much of the Cas9 that is ...

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, ...

Chocolate prices have been rising due to complications in the supply chain, but Penn State researchers have made a ...

The apparel industry accounts for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. Biotechs are working on reengineering natural products to make more sustainable textiles, which are gaining traction.

Vinay Prasad told Bloomberg that the FDA is going to be “extremely flexible” regarding gene editing therapies.

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Martin Kampmann’s work, supported by the National Institutes of Science (NIH), maps cellular “decision points” that determine ...

One of the most frightening things about Alzheimer's disease is how difficult it is to diagnose early. Now, University of ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited ...