The genome of a mimivirus strain resistant to a virophage has repeated phage sequences alongside nuclease- and helicase-coding sections. Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was one of the most serious public health calamities in the last decade, causing global morbidity and mortality in the millions. The emergence of ...

Cas9, scientists reconstitute live African swine fever virus from synthetic genomes, accelerating vaccine development for ...

Since the first reported cases in 1981, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected approximately 86 million people and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people from acquired ...

Combining first-in-class delivery and engineering tools, Ensoma is developing one-time in vivo treatments that can precisely engineer any cell of the blood and immune systems to cure diseases from ...

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a CRISPR-based diagnostic tool capable of detecting bloodstream infections in minutes without the need for nucleic acid ...

A team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet has developed a novel tool for genetic research. The study, published in ...

Beam Therapeutics said Monday that it used a form of CRISPR called base editing to correct, in several patients, a mutation that drives a debilitating lung condition that may affect tens of ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. A molecular recorder is an emerging class of molecular technology. It’s basically a collection of genes that, when ...

It sounds like science fiction — and until 2012, the ability to cheaply and easily edit strings of DNA was exactly that. But as it turns out, CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is a completely natural ...