Lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, best known as the delivery vehicle for the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines received by billions of people, are now at the center of a much larger medical revolution. Researchers ...

A recent study utilizing cryo-EM advances our understanding of how bacterial immune systems function and reveals new aspects ...

A new CRISPR-based tool that is directly used on patients' cancer cells can identify genes and regulatory elements driving ...

CRISPR has revolutionized science. AI is now taking the gene editor to the next level. Despite its real-world impact, CRISPR isn’t perfect. The tool snips both strands of DNA, which can cause ...

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) act as carriers for mRNA and CRISPR payloads across a wide range of therapeutic applications, from cancer to inflammatory and genetic diseases. The same delivery system used ...

Researchers have successfully resurrected a gene that humanity lost millions of years ago. The results could change how we treat common diseases such as gout and maybe even contribute to slowing down ...

CRISPR gene drives bias inheritance in pests, advancing population-level control while raising questions about resistance and ...

Gene editing is growing up. Ten years after Science magazine named CRISPR its 2015 “Breakthrough of the Year,” this revolutionary gene editing technology has become a workhorse of modern biology. In ...

CRISPR genome-editing tools allow researchers to quickly test hundreds of genes at the same time to determine which ones are important for cancer growth and survival. These genetic toolkits have ...