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

Gene editing is revolutionizing the understanding of health and disease, providing researchers with vast opportunities to advance the development of novel treatment approaches. Traditionally, ...

Episode 10 (February 23, 2024): Researchers from Francis Collins’ lab developed an efficient CRISPR prime editing protocol to generate isogenic-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines carrying ...

CRISPR-Cas9 editing leads to widespread loss of the targeted chromosome in human T cells, but scientists recently discovered a way to prevent such loss. To investigate how Cas9 gene editing affected T ...

Despite the copious demands of his administrative positions as the White House chief science advisor (and until last year, the director of the NIH), Francis Collins, MD, PhD, has continued to run a ...

CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a revolutionary gene-editing tool originally discovered as a bacterial defence mechanism. Scientists have repurposed it ...

Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Augmenting Humans. Jennifer Doudna's gene-editing technology CRISPR can now manipulate populations of microbes. This new field, called precision microbiome editing ...

In a landmark decision, the Food and Drug Administration Friday approved the first gene-editing treatment to alleviate human illness. The FDA approved two gene therapies for anyone 12 and older ...

Cutting-edge gene editing technology could eradicate Down syndrome, according to Japanese scientists. Down syndrome, which causes a range of developmental differences and affects 1 in 700 newborns in ...

Surviving the harsh winter months is a major challenge for many insects. One widely adopted survival strategy, especially in temperate regions, is the production of overwintering eggs with hard, ...