A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

Head and neck cancers often begin in the mouth, throat, or voice box. They're among the most common cancers in the world, ...

RAPID-CRISPR test quickly and accurately diagnoses acute promyelocytic leukemia, a rare and aggressive blood cancer, with ...

CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world. The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell.

CRISPR looked like an ideal way to engineer a T cell. It’s a simple process, with minimal off-target effects, and works on a wide range of cell types. But there’s one area where CRISPR has ...

Kim V. Narry, director of the Center for RNA Research of the Institute for Basic Science and chair professor at the ...

Even though there are some roadblocks, the CRISPR approach to cancer treatment has the potential to be effective against many types of cancer. Particularly, gene editing works best on visible and ...

A team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet has developed a novel tool for genetic research. The study, published in ...

Collaborative research defines a novel approach to understanding how certain proteins called transcription factors determine which genetic programs will drive cell growth and maturation. The method, ...

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CRISPR has not been widely used in cancer treatment until now because scientists believed that removing just one gene wouldn’t be enough to stop cancer. But Peer’s work shows that some genes ...