Belgian researchers from VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology have developed a new toolbox of 16 different short DNA sequences that allow triggering ...

Traditional breeding and genetic modification methods have struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of plant viruses. CRISPR/Cas systems, originally derived from bacterial immune responses, ...

On June 28, 2012, the most significant scientific breakthrough of the first quarter of the 21st century was announced to the ...

Lehigh University bioengineering researcher Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, an assistant professor in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science leads an interdisciplinary team applying ...

Scribe’s CRISPR epigenetic silencing technology, ELXR, demonstrated dramatic and sustained lowering of LDL-C by up to 67% for nearly 6 months in non-human primates – without altering DNA sequence. In ...

One of the most revolutionary tools in cutting-edge medicine is a molecular scalpel so precise that it can modify defective DNA and fix genetic diseases like sickle cell anemia, and chronic disorders ...

BERKELEY, Calif., April 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Caribou Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRBU), a leading clinical-stage CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company, today announced an abstract on ...

New Rochelle, NY, October 22, 2024—An invited Guest Editorial entitled “Give Cas a Chance,” by Fyodor Urnov, PhD, Director of Technology & Translation at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), ...

Nkarta, Inc. (Nasdaq: NKTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered natural killer (NK) cell therapies, today announced its participation in the following investor ...

The United Nations predicts that there will be an additional 2.2 billion people on the planet by 2050. To help feed the growing population, the food industry must overcome several critical challenges, ...