CRISPR causes significantly greater DNA damage than previously thought, study finds
The DNA damage found in the new study included deletions of thousands of DNA bases, including at spots far from the edit. Some of the deletions can silence genes that should be active and activate genes that should be silent,…
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U.S. scientists are fixing genetic defects in human embryos. Should you be nervous?
For the first time, U.S. scientists have genetically edited human embryos with CRISPR, thanks in part to regulatory loopholes.
CRISPR used to store images and a movie inside living bacteria
Forget iTunes or your old zipper case of DVDs. How about storing movies in a Petri dish of E. coli? All you need is some genetic engineering with CRISPR.
The U.S. patent office ruled on Wednesday that hotly disputed patents on the revolutionary genome-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 belong to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, dealing a blow to the University of California.
Imagine you could edit a mouse’s genes to be resistant to Lyme Disease. The mouse would breed and evolution would take its course, leading to the extinction of the disease. That’s the vision for scientists developing CRISPR, technology that allows…
What did 2016 mean for science? Science correspondent Miles O’Brien sits down with William Brangham to discuss some of the more remarkable discoveries, innovations and setbacks this year, including the confirmation of one of Einstein's major predictions, the global outbreak…
For the first time, a cancer patient is being treated with cells altered using a gene editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9.
Obesity, clean drinking water and antibiotic resistance are just some of science and health issues to have taken a backseat during the presidential election.
