CRISPR Gene Editing News

July 26, 2024

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A New Addition to the CRISPR Toolbox: Teaching the Gene Scissors to Detect RNA

July 16, 2024 — CRISPR-Cas systems, defense systems in bacteria, have become a plentiful source of technologies for molecular diagnostics. Researchers have now expanded this extensive toolbox further. Their novel ...

Big Gain in Battle Against Harmful Bacteria

July 10, 2024 — An unexpected find has enabled important progress to be made in the battle against harmful ...

New Tool Enables Faster, More Cost-Effective Genome Editing of Traits to Improve Agriculture Sustainability

June 26, 2024 — New research had the goal of reducing the time and cost it takes to bring an improved crop to the marketplace to improve agriculture ...

Modifying Genomes of Tardigrades to Unravel Their Secrets

June 13, 2024 — Some species of tardigrades are highly and unusually resilient to various extreme conditions fatal to most other forms of life. The genetic basis for these exceptional abilities remains elusive. Researchers have now successfully edited genes using ...

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Scientists Engineer Yellow-Seeded Camelina With High Oil Output

June 11, 2024 — Using tools of modern genetics, plant biochemists have produced a new high-yielding oilseed crop variety -- a yellow-seeded variety of Camelina sativa, a close relative of canola, that accumulates ...

Fine-Tuning Leaf Angle With CRISPR Improves Sugarcane Yield

June 10, 2024 — A CABBI research team has used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to optimize leaf angle in sugarcane, increasing the amount of sunlight it captures and the amount of biomass it ...

New, Modified CRISPR Protein Can Fit Inside Virus Used for Gene Therapy

May 30, 2024 — Researchers have developed a novel version of a key CRISPR gene-editing protein that shows efficient editing activity and is small enough to be packaged within a non-pathogenic virus that can deliver ...

Changes Upstream: RIPE Team Uses CRISPR/Cas9 to Alter Photosynthesis for the First Time

June 7, 2024 — Scientists used CRISPR/Cas9 to increase gene expression in rice by changing its upstream regulatory DNA. While other studies have used the technology ...

Editing Without 'Cutting': Molecular Mechanisms of New Gene-Editing Tool Revealed

May 29, 2024 — New research has determined the spatial structure of various processes of a novel gene-editing tool called 'prime editor.' Functional analysis based ...

Research on RNA Editing Illuminates Possible Lifesaving Treatments for Genetic Diseases

Apr. 29, 2024 — The research explores how CRISPR can be used to edit ...

Innovative Antiviral Defense With New CRISPR Tool

Apr. 12, 2024 — The rise of RNA viruses like SARS-CoV-2 highlights the need for new ways to fight them. RNA-targeting tools like CRISPR/Cas13 are powerful but inefficient in the cytoplasm of cells, where many RNA ...

CRISPR-Copies: New Tool Accelerates and Optimizes Genome Editing

Feb. 13, 2024 — Researchers are further improving CRISPR's versatility to engineer new grasses and yeasts for biochemical ...

Bioinformatics: Researchers Develop a New Machine Learning Approach

Jan. 13, 2024 — To combat viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, synthetic biology offers new technological approaches whose performance is being validated in experiments. Researchers applied data integration and ...

Scientists Use Quantum Biology, AI to Sharpen Genome Editing Tool

Nov. 9, 2023 — Scientists used their expertise in quantum biology, artificial intelligence and bioengineering to improve how CRISPR Cas9 genome editing tools work on organisms like microbes that can be modified to ...

Researchers Develop DANGER Analysis Tool for the Safer Design of Gene Editing

Oct. 23, 2023 — A team of researchers has developed a software tool that provides a way for the safer design of genome editing in all organisms with a transcriptome. For about a decade, researchers have used the ...

You Say Genome Editing, I Say Natural Mutation

Oct. 19, 2023 — A plant geneticist and computational biologist teamed up to decipher the unpredictability of natural and engineered mutations in tomatoes. They discovered some combinations of mutations behave as ...

Scientists Uncover New Way Viruses Fight Back Against Bacteria

Oct. 18, 2023 — A microscopic discovery will not only enable scientists to understand the microbial world around us but could also provide a new way to control CRISPR-Cas ...

Win-Win in Muscle Research: Faster Results and Fewer Laboratory Animals Thanks to New Method

Oct. 12, 2023 — To study muscle diseases, scientists rely on the mouse as a model organism. Researchers have now developed a new method that is not only faster and more efficient than conventional ones but also ...

Small but Mighty New Gene Editor

Sep. 29, 2023 — A new CRISPR-based gene-editing tool has been developed which could lead to better treatments for patients with genetic disorders. The tool is an enzyme, AsCas12f, which has been modified to offer ...

Tiny CRISPR Tool Could Help Shred Viruses

Sep. 27, 2023 — Scientists mapped out the three-dimensional structure of one of the smallest known CRISPR-Cas13 systems then used that knowledge to modify its structure and improve its ...

Genetically Modifying Individual Cells in Animals

Sep. 20, 2023 — Researchers have developed a method that lets them genetically modify each cell differently in animals. This allows them to study in a single experiment what used to require many animal experiments. ...

Genome Editing: Reducing Off-Target Mutations in DNA

Sep. 15, 2023 — Researchers have developed a novel genome editing technique known as NICER, which results in significantly fewer off-target mutations than CRISPR/Cas9 editing. The technique uses a different type of ...

Novel Treatment Based on Gene Editing Safely and Effectively Removes HIV-Like Virus from Genomes of Non-Human Primates

Aug. 17, 2023 — A single injection of a novel CRISPR gene-editing treatment safely and efficiently removes SIV -- a virus related to the AIDS-causing agent HIV -- from the genomes of non-human primates, scientists ...

Researchers Engineer Bacteria That Can Detect Tumor DNA

Aug. 10, 2023 — Creating new technologically advanced sensors, scientists have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors ...

Researchers Identify Peptides for Pollen Tube Growth in Rice

Aug. 10, 2023 — Rapid alkalinization factors (RALFs) are required for pollen tube germination and elongation, an essential process in plant fertilization. But their role in monocot plants remains unexplored. ...

Scientists Develop Gene-Editing Technology That Eliminates EV-A71 RNA Viruses

Aug. 2, 2023 — A team of scientists has made an important breakthrough in the fight against RNA viruses that cause human diseases and ...

Building a Better Forest Tree With CRISPR Gene Editing

July 13, 2023 — Researchers use CRISPR techniques to modify lignin levels in poplar ...

Researchers Visualize Activity of CRISPR Genetic Scissors

July 12, 2023 — Scientists have developed a new method to measure the smallest twists and torques of molecules within milliseconds. The method makes it possible to track the gene recognition of CRISPR-Cas protein ...

New Genetic Technology Developed to Halt Malaria-Spreading Mosquitoes

July 5, 2023 — Using CRISPR technology, scientists have engineered a new way to genetically suppress populations of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquitoes that primarily spread malaria in Africa and contribute to ...

AI and CRISPR Precisely Control Gene Expression

July 3, 2023 — The study combines a deep learning model with CRISPR screens to control the expression of human genes in different ways -- such as flicking a light switch to shut them off completely or by using a ...

Genome Editing Used to Create Disease Resistant Rice

June 15, 2023 — Researchers have used the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas to create disease resistant rice plants, according to a new study. Small-scale field trials in China show that the newly created rice variety ...

CRISPR/Cas9-Based Gene Drive Could Suppress Agricultural Pests

June 12, 2023 — Researchers have now used a gene-drive system to suppress an important agricultural ...

CRISPR/Cas9 Reveals a Key Gene Involved in the Evolution of Coral Skeleton Formation

June 5, 2023 — New work uses cutting-edge CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing tools to reveal a gene that's critical to stony corals' ability to build their reef architectures. This research could inform coral ...

Gene Editing Tool Could Help Reduce Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance

May 25, 2023 — A new tool which could help reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance is showing early promise, through exploiting a bacterial immune system as a gene editing ...