The competition between U.S. and Chinese biotech companies is particularly fierce in one field: CRISPR gene editing. Here are ...

Supposing the resistance might have roots in a CRISPR-like mechanism, Raoult’s team sequenced genomes from the three giant-virus lineages, and found a 28-nucleotide stretch of DNA in lineage A ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into ...

CRISPR is a technology that allows scientists to "selectively modify the DNA of living organisms," according to the National Human Genome Research Institute. The image is a fabrication ...

Two of the exonucleases tested, including one from the herpes virus family ... only have to screen around 50–100 first-generation daughter plants using our optimized CRISPR/Cas method to ...

Suffering on such an immense scale can appear hopeless. However, a technique called CRISPR gene editing promises to help deal with these issues and many more—and wise regulation can spur it on.

The CRISPR screen also identified CD163 ... “If we can prevent the virus from entering a cell by disrupting this initial ...

In early 2005 Rodolphe Barrangou and Philippe Horvath were staring at some very odd bits of repeating genetic code on a computer screen in France ... to DNA from the virus to which that strain ...