Dr. Jie Li examines vitamin D-enriched tomatoes. Credit: Phil Robinson Tomatoes that have been gene-edited to produce vitamin D, known as the sunshine vitamin, could…
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Cartoon of CRISPR in cockroaches. Credit: Shirai et al./Cell Reports Methods According to a paper published in the journal Cell Reports Methods by Cell Press…
Researchers at InBio (formerly Indoor Biotechnologies), a biotech company in Virginia, report progress en route to developing a hypoallergenic cat – or at least treating…
Hannele Ruohola Baker and Shiri Levy discuss a new technique for awakening silenced genes in Ruohola-Baker’s lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine.…
Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, mammoths 4,000 years ago, and the Christmas Island Rat 119 years ago. Since becoming a popular concept in…
A CRISPR-based gene editing technique called twin prime editing could be a new and safer approach to gene therapy. Researchers at the Broad Institute of…
Credit: Susanna Hamilton, Broad Communications Researchers have boosted the efficiency of prime editing, a highly versatile CRISPR-based gene editing technology, and used the improved system…
Two new methods allow CRISPR editing of genes in multiple cell types simultaneously. To date, CRISPR enzymes have been used to edit the genomes of…
Germination in the non-mutated barley was almost complete, while the gene-edited barley did not germinate at all. This shows that the gene-edited barley had been…
Soumya Kannan is a 2021-22 Yang-Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics Graduate Student Fellow in the lab of MIT Professor Feng Zhang and co-first author with…

Researchers Engineer a Mini CRISPR Genetic Editing System That Could Be Easier To Deliver Into Cells
CRISPR illustration. Credit: National Institutes of Health A compact and efficient CRISPR-Cas system, named CasMINI, could be broadly useful for cell-engineering and gene-therapy applications because…
An illustration by study coauthor Stephanie Gamez depicts flightless females and sterile male mosquitoes, features of the new precision-guided sterile insect technique, or pgSIT, which…
Stanford researchers have engineered a new miniature CRISPR system that should be easier to deliver into human cells. Bioengineers have repurposed a “non-working” CRISPR system…
The reactions involved in the FIND-IT assay to detect infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. When the Cas13 enzyme (left) binds to its target RNA, it…
First successful use aboard International Space Station of new technique for studying DNA repair in yeast. Researchers have developed and successfully demonstrated a novel method…
CRISPR illustration. Credit: National Institutes of Health Multiplexed gene activation system allows for four to six times the activation capacity of current CRISPR technology, with…
Staining for RAD51 (bright cyan-colored dot) in a fertilized one-cell mouse embryo shows repair of a CRISPR-induced DNA break. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers.…
The MIT spinout KSQ Therapeutics uses large scale gene editing to study the role of genes in diseases like cancer. Credit: courtesy of KSQ Therapeutics…
Electron microscopy image of DNA origami rotor arms, which are the faint orange “L’s” attached to the purple tracking particles. Credit: Image courtesy of Julene…
Phylogenetic trees, starting with an individual cancer cell. Each color represents a different location in the body. A very colorful tree shows a highly metastatic…