Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after ...

Peter Mac scientists have found a way to use the powerful gene editing tool CRISPR to silence cancer-causing gene mutations which, up to now, have remained off-limits to targeted drugs. Dr. Mohamed ...

Oceanic ecosystems are increasingly threatened by global warming, which causes coral bleaching, species migration and, ...

Last year, a ten-month-old baby in the US was the first person in the world to have their rare genetic disease effectively ...

Using CRISPR, Hebrew University of Jerusalem team finds PEDS1 enzyme linked to reduced brain size; study maps 331 genes ...

In nature, the best-known CRISPR system, CRISPR-Cas9, cuts any RNA or DNA it recognizes as foreign, and thereby protects bacteria from viral attacks. Another CRISPR system, one that is relatively ...

The hold followed Intellia’s voluntary pause in response to a grade 4 liver event—a case of Hy’s Law—in the ATTR-CM trial.

When scientists discovered how bacteria protect themselves against viral invaders, called phages, in the early 2000s, little did they know they’d stumbled upon a revolutionary tool researchers could ...

When scientists discovered how bacteria protect themselves against viral invaders, called phages, in the early 2000s, little did they know they'd stumbled upon a revolutionary tool researchers could ...

A popular gene-editing technique may unintentionally delete and rearrange DNA bases, according to a new study published in Nature Biotechnology. The study involves the use of CRISPR-Cas9, a system ...