Wang are Laurentian University students and parents. In this guest report, they share some insights they’ve learned about ...

Researchers at DTU Biosustain (The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at DTU) have developed a new tool ...

Repositioning genes awakens fetal hemoglobin to treat disease. CRISPR editing may change future gene therapy. Researchers ...

While some scientists argue that agricultural gene editing regulations are overly restrictive, a new paper from the ...

Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism. Modifications can be generated by methods such as gene targeting, nuclear transplantation, transfection of synthetic ...

In early 1975, a group of biologists from around the world gathered at Asilomar, a conference center in Pacific Grove, ...

Climate Solutions A gene could be key to growing rice, and feeding billions, in a hotter world. Researchers say they can improve rice harvests and grain quality by essentially turning off a ...

Leaders from the world of cell and gene therapy, including molecular geneticists ... Strohbehn Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University, where he is director of ...

This method provides complete control over both the length and sequence of the overhangs, and eliminates the need for restriction enzymes as tools for gene engineering. As shown in Figure 2A ...

To do this, they used a "genetic engineering trick" called CRISPR base editing, a second-generation CRISPR tool, said Marco Herold, head of the Blood Cancer and Immunotherapy Lab at the Olivia ...

Rocket Pharmaceuticals acknowledged the death of a patient in a pivotal trial assessing its Danon disease gene therapy candidate RP-A501, a study that the FDA has placed on clinical hold. The ...

Our researchers know that discoveries about the genetics of cancer can inform our understanding of genetic diseases that are not cancer, and vice versa. As our physician-scientists gain expertise in ...