Imagine if you could fix a spelling mistake in a long document with just one click. Now, imagine doing the same with the genetic code of a plant or even a human cell. That’s ...

Marine bacteria are key to determining whether carbon is recycled near the ocean surface or transported to deeper waters, but ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

Karthik and her team aimed to use CRISPR as a way to identify and isolate a protein generated by the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.

Researchers have used CRISPR to switch back on a gene that vanished from the human lineage roughly 20 million years ago, ...

This year, our scientists offered new hope for treating neurodegeneration and obesity and dramatically improved the odds that ...

Biotech today is moving at lightning speed, seriously. It feels like every week there’s something new that changes how we ...

The world of medical testing is always changing, and point-of-care molecular diagnostics are a big part of that. These tests let us find out what’s going on with a patient’s health right there, ...

In a new study, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig analyzed the impact of more ...

Scientists are using CRISPR to fast-track the domestication of a wild fruit. For roughly 10,000 years, farming communities ...

If you have been wondering whether CRISPR Therapeutics at around $57 a share is a bargain or a bubble, you are not alone. This stock sits at the crossroads of high science and high expectations. The ...