Business Insider hosted Carl Zimmer last year, which is when he explained to use how the revolutionary genome-editing tool CRISPR works. Zimmer is a columnist for The New York Times and the author ...
Thanks to CRISPR, medical specialists will soon have unprecedented control over how they treat and prevent some of the most challenging genetic disorders and diseases. CRISPR (Clustered Regularly ...
RNA-targeting tools like CRISPR/Cas13 are powerful but inefficient in the cytoplasm of cells, where many RNA viruses replicate. Scientists from Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University Munich ...
ETH Zurich researchers used combined CRISPR techniques to reveal unknown cancer-related mutations in the EGFR gene, identifying variants that may cause cancer or confer drug resistance. This approach ...
CRISPR-Cas9 is a tool that allows scientists to swap a particular, potentially faulty gene with another, potentially healthy one. It sets itself apart from other gene-editing techniques ...