A good night’s rest can often be the best medicine, which means new research into gene editing that may have unlocked the part of the brain responsible for deep sleep could lead to exciting new ...

Prime editing uses CRISPR-guided reverse transcription to enable the programmable introduction of any desired base substitution or small insertion or deletion. One challenge for using prime editing ...

Two new studies offer more validation that prime editing and base editing have the potential to permanently fix a gene variant associated with the rare disease phenylketonuria. In two separate papers ...

Researchers developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the liver, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for about 700 genetic ...

A researcher highlighted gene editing and its therapeutic applications in a talk April 18. Raj Chari, director of the Genome Modification Core Laboratory at the Frederick National Laboratory for ...

An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a public workshop to examine challenges facing the use of animals in scientific research stemming from the widespread use of gene editing technologies, such ...

The research explores how CRISPR can be used to edit RNA. A team at Montana State University published research that shows how RNA, the close chemical cousin to DNA, can be edited using CRISPRs. The ...

LONDON — The Francis Crick Institute is a glimmering chameleon of a building, spanning four acres of downtown London, that took 10 years and cost nearly $850 million to build. The curves of its ...