“For example, the most well-known of these immunotherapies only benefits 20 to 30% of patients.” When they delivered the Cas13 package into tumor microenvironments in mice, they found that it silenced ...

In most recent advancements, RNA editing uses the CRISPR-Cas13 system, a newer technique ... which was created after scientists discovered that bacteria defend against invading viruses by ...

"So how do you hit multiple targets in the same go?" For their approach, Chen and his colleagues used a gene editing molecule called Cas13, which targets and degrades RNA. (Its more widely ...