Researchers engineered and screened dozens of base editors to precisely target a single mutation without editing other portions of the DNA.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

Gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 have many uses in the area of food and agriculture. They can combat persistent drought and disease, and improve the colour and nutritional content of food ...

When scientists discovered how bacteria protect themselves against viral invaders, called phages, in the early 2000s, little did they know they'd stumbled upon a revolutionary tool researchers could ...

The possibility of editing our genes once seemed more like science fiction than reality. Times have changed with the development of CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing tool first used in 2012. Gene editing is ...

Multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome (MSMDS) is a rare condition associated with stroke, aortic dissection ...

In December 2020, the New England Journal of Medicine published a paper titled CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing for Sickle Cell Disease and β-Thalassemia, marking an exciting new chapter in the treatment of ...

Scientists are hailing a huge breakthrough in gene editing which could wipe out inherited diseases. American experts reached a world first by successfully altering DNA in defective embryos so they ...