The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell. After that, the next step in CRISPR gene editing is usually to alter that piece of DNA. However ...

CRISPR places an entirely new kind of power into human hands. For the first time, scientists can quickly and precisely alter, delete, and rearrange the DNA of nearly any living organism ...

2 The team next wanted to test these findings in a physiological context; they were curious to see how negative supercoiling, or under twisting of DNA that happens during normal transcription and ...

Carl Zimmer recently reported in The New York Times about a new way Crispr could be used in new ways. “The groundbreaking thing about this work is that it now opens up the RNA world to Crispr ...

Early reports have demonstrated that CRISPR effectively excises integrated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) from cells. 1,2 For Michele Lai from the University of Pisa, these studies raised ...

and a new report in the Wall Street Journal reveals that not only are Chinese scientists ahead of the curve when it comes to DNA manipulation, but they already have dozens of CRISPR patients.