CRISPR-modified animals are even being marketed for sale as pets. “It's allowed us to consider a whole raft of projects we couldn't before,” says Bruce Whitelaw, an animal biotechnologist at the ...

A historic pandemic continues to rage, and it isn’t getting the attention it deserves given the virus’s toll. The outbreak in this case isn’t COVID-19, but a vicious iteration of the avian flu. But ...

Over 70,000 people around the world have cystic fibrosis (CF), one of the world's most common genetic diseases. Two copies of the mutated CFTR gene cause the disease; an affected individual usually ...

Many genetic diseases are caused by diverse mutations spread across an entire gene, and designing genome editing approaches for each patient's mutation would be impractical and costly. Many genetic ...

Historically, turning invisible was considered the stuff of wizardry and spells. More recently, physicists have also looked ...

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true ...

CRISPR-modified poplar trees and wild poplar trees grow in a greenhouse at North Carolina State University. (Chenmin Yang, NC State) (CN) — Researchers are using the revolutionary gene-editing ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that flipping an epigenetic “switch” in specific memory-holding neurons can directly alter memory strength.

Next-generation sequencing methods that provide multi-omic read-outs of CRISPR-modified cells reveal the relevance of genetic variants to disease states. Benjamin Izar is trying to work out what ...

Chocolate prices have been rising due to complications in the supply chain, but Penn State researchers have made a ...

AddGraft Therapeutics has developed a novel platform that aims to effectively treat substance use disorders with genetically engineered skin grafts—a first-of-its-kind treatment with myriad ...