but rather with epistemological questions about what the existence of CRISPR technology suggests about the limits of being human — and what it means for my friend who someday might alter an ...

View full profile. Learn about our editorial policies. Like the human immune system, bacteria learn from past infections. CRISPR sequences—short snippets of DNA from previous viruses—guide destructive ...

Within bacterial cells, specialized immune systems known as retrons fend off viral attacks. But that's not all they can do.

We can use this technology to build a map of what’s going on in there and better understand when things are disorganized like ...

With its discovery, Doudna explained, humanity had achieved the ability to change its own fundamental molecular nature ... of two gene-edited human fetuses—that is, ”CRISPR babies” in ...

Researchers have identified 163 new retrons that significantly improve DNA editing efficiency compared to existing methods.

I will discuss how bacterial CRISPR adaptive immune systems inspire creation of powerful genome engineering tools, enabling advances in both fundamental biology and applications in medicine and ...

A new approach for delivering miniature research tools into the interior of egg cells and embryos has been developed at the ...

The future of CRISPR involves clinical trials focused on treatment for blood diseases and cancers, cardiovascular disease, ...

At Princeton University, scientists have been nudging DNA by using light-inducible biomolecular condensates to generate capillary forces at targeted DNA loci. These condensates are part of a platform ...

Researcher suggest CREME provides a powerful toolkit for translating the predictions of genomic deep neural networks into mechanistic insights of gene regulation ...