Have you ever wondered whether the virus that gave you a nasty cold can catch one itself? It may comfort you to know that, ...

CRISPR-Cas9 has long been likened to a kind of genetic scissors, thanks to its ability to snip out any desired section of DNA ...

An RNA-editing gene therapy has been developed that switches off the key driver of common eye conditions affecting diabetics ...

Jan. 13, 2024 — To combat viruses, bacteria and other pathogens ... artificial intelligence and bioengineering to improve how CRISPR Cas9 genome editing tools work on organisms like microbes ...

"It's a completely brand-new type of CRISPR chemistry," says co-first author Christian Baca, a TPCB graduate student in the Marraffini lab. "It's more evidence that CRISPR systems have an array of ...

Researchers discovered that the CRISPR-Cas10 system not only cuts viral DNA but also produces toxic cyclic-oligoadenylates ...

CRISPR-Cas systems help to protect bacteria from viruses. Several different types ... Among them, the most studied proteins today are Cas9 and Cas12, also known as DNA or ‘gene scissors ...

where they help defend against viruses. The Cas9 protein is the most widely used by scientists. This protein can easily be programmed to find and bind to almost any desired target sequence ...

Second, CRISPR-Cas9 and other DNA editing tools require proteins acquired ... Researchers used them to great success to make ...