To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, has published new research in ...

For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their ...

CRISPR systems are powerful tools for genetic engineering, but they have their limitations. Now, scientists have discovered almost 200 new CRISPR systems in their native habitat of bacteria, and found ...

Teens at a Georgia high school may have come up with a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. They took their idea to ...

CRISPR-Cas9 has been the household name of genetic engineering tools over the past decade, but there might be other, better ways. MIT scientists have now demonstrated an alternative called Fanzor, ...

The CRISPR gene editing system originated in bacteria, and is part of a defense that bacterial cells use against viruses. In CRISPR gene editing, a guide RNA brings a genome-cutting enzyme (typically ...

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, and among all cancers, colorectal cancer ranks second in mortality, responsible ...

The CRISPR gene editing technology has transformed the research lab, and this powerful tool is now making its way into the clinic. So far, three different human diseases have been successfully treated ...