For decades, researchers have wondered why some people with risky gene variants go on to develop Parkinson’s disease, while ...

Japanese researchers have successfully eliminated the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome using CRISPR gene ...

It has been described as a revolutionary technology — and won its inventors a Nobel Prize. CRISPR gene editing, often simply dubbed CRISPR, is a tool that allows scientists to precisely target ...

The structural difference in DNA cleavage - Cas12a generates staggered cuts with sticky ends - may explain the divergence in repair outcomes. The findings have important implications for CRISPR-based ...

The Modernization Engineering Technology Research Center of Ethnic Minority Medicine of Hubei Province, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan 430074, China ...

He’s not cured, researchers explained at the annual American Society ... who co-founded and led Intellia, one of the first CRISPR companies, until 2017.

Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and venture capital reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout ...

Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease. This represents the culmination of one of the promises of the CRISPR revolution – specific gene therapy in living individuals. I ...

Researchers have, for the first time ever, used CRISPR gene editing on spiders. While the genetically-modified critters lack the ability to give you spidey senses, they do spin glowing silk.

"For the first time, we've harnessed the power of CRISPR technology to create a precise spatial 'zip code' that delivers RNA molecules exactly where they're needed within cells," said Stanley Qi ...

CRISPR Therapeutics is paying $25 million upfront to work on multiple siRNA targets with Sirius Tx with an early focus on the next-gen thrombotic disease asset SRSD107. That drug, Sirius’ lead ...