Researchers from TU Delft in the group of Stan Brouns have discovered a CRISPR-Cas system that cuts proteins instead of DNA. The discovery opens the door to the development of a range of ...

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Head of Biomedical Engineering Programme, Director of CUHKSZ-Boyalife Joint Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine Engineering, Team Leader of Integrated Devices and ...

The CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system has revolutionized biomedical research, and has now even been used in the clinic is some rare instances. CRISPR originated in bacteria as a kind of immune defense ...

CRISPR’s promise of curing diseases hit a setback when researchers discovered that AZD7648, a molecule designed to improve precision, also caused catastrophic hidden damage to DNA. Instead of perfect ...

Scientists have revealed how Fanzor2's divergence from bacterial ancestors may make it a useful tool for future genomic engineering endeavors. A revolution in biomedicine is currently underway, driven ...

Out of the many challenges scientists face in bringing genomic medicine to patients, delivery is near the top of the list. Due to these barriers in getting the genetic payload to the correct target ...

The CRISPR-Cas (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR) and its associated protein (Cas9) system is a genome-editing technology that holds the potential to alleviate multiple ...

Overview of CRISPR/Cas system-based tumor molecular diagnostic strategies, including variant gene, protein, and liquid biopsy marker assays and in situ molecular analysis. The CRISPR/Cas system, known ...

Another potentially game-changing discovery has come out of the lab of Feng Zhang, PhD. This time, they uncovered the first programmable RNA-guided system in eukaryotes. Just a few months ago, the ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers led by Feng Zhang at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT has uncovered the first programmable RNA-guided ...