The growing threat of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is calling upon researchers to find alternative ways to treat these infections. Cue CRISPR-Cas technology. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is ...

Natural systems such as CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs) offer a targetable, one-step way to edit genomes. However, ...

Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is ...

CRISPR Gene editing therapy is used for the first time in living humans with amazing results.0:00 Introduction 0:53 What is CRISPR?2:05 How Does CRISPR work?3:18 The Experiment5:30 The Results9:31 ...

Around 10 million. That’s the number of lives forecasters believe we will lose each year by 2050 as bacteria develop defenses against the drugs we use to fight infections. Tackling antibiotic ...

When scientists discovered how bacteria protect themselves against viral invaders, called phages, in the early 2000s, little did they know they’d stumbled upon a revolutionary tool researchers could ...

St. Georges Technical High School students using CRISPR in a Box. On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a sickle cell disease drug called Casgevy, co-developed by Vertex ...

That’s why a team from UC San Diego in La Jolla set out with Yale University researchers to develop a new system for gene ...

CRISPR — short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — is a method of genetic editing that uses RNA ...