Australian cancer researchers are the first to establish a next-generation gene-editing tool for modeling and interrogating human disease.

It's clear though that these companies need time. Even with the only approved CAS9 based treatment out there, CRISPR is still years away from achieving its potential. In a recent update to ...

CRISPR-Cas9 is one of the biggest discoveries of the 21st century. Since it was developed in 2012, this gene-editing tool has revolutionized biology research, making it easier to study disease and ...

cGlobal and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia dCentre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) CRISPR nucleases, Cas9 and Cas12, have been engineered to evade immune detection, addressing a key challenge in CRISPR-based therapies. By identifying and ...

Bring up germline editing, and most scientists cringe. The idea behind the notorious CRISPR-baby scandal, editing reproductive cells or embryos tinkers with DNA far beyond just the patient—any changes ...

Then Crispr came along—the elegant enzymatic apparatus that allows delivery of DNA scissors to a specific target in the genome. In December 2023, the FDA approved the first Crispr-based therapy ...