A lab course at UB is giving undergraduate biology students hands-on experience with CRISPR, a revolutionary gene-editing technique. CRISPR allows scientists to disable or alter specific sections of ...
Synthego wants to make gene-editing tools more accessible to scientists around the world. To that end, the Bay Area biotech has raised $110 million in series C funding to ramp up capacity for its ...
Charles Gersbach and his colleagues are pursuing promising CRISPR technologies focused on controlling gene activity rather ...
Some genetic diseases are more straightforward than others. In cases like cystic fibrosis or Marfan syndrome, a mutation makes a gene defective, and that causes symptoms in a patient that are ...
Researchers have used modified CRISPR to silence the extra chromosome 21 in Down syndrome cells, showing promising ...
This article was written for our sponsor, Innovation Road Trip. Eradication of certain diseases, increasing crop sizes, reducing pest populations — the current and future applications of CRISPR have ...
The University of California and the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline on Thursday announced plans to build a new $67 million genetics laboratory focused on the gene-editing technology ...