Using light to control genome editing
New technique offers precise manipulation of when and where genes are targeted.
New technique offers precise manipulation of when and where genes are targeted.
Broad Institute/MIT scientist among three honored for CRISPR contributions.
Scientists program C2c2, discovered in bacteria as a viral defense mechanism, to manipulate cellular RNA.
Like 3-D printing did for larger objects, method makes it easy to build nanoparticles out of DNA.
Broad/MIT scientist among five honored as pioneers of CRISPR-Cas9 system.
Genome-editing pioneer Feng Zhang hopes his work will shed light on neurological disorders.
New delivery method boosts efficiency of CRISPR genome-editing system.
Systematically searching DNA for regulatory elements indicates limits of previous thinking.
Team re-engineers system to dramatically cut down on editing errors; improvements advance future human applications.
CRISPR-Cpf1 offers simpler approach to editing DNA; technology could disrupt scientific and commercial landscape.
Researchers find pathway that controls metabolism by prompting fat cells to store or burn fat.
Sensors, memory switches, and circuits can be encoded in a common gut bacterium.