The growing occurrence of genetic disorders like sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy is fueling the demand for gene therapy and genome editing solutions, as these approaches ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Beijing Institute of Stem Cells and Regeneration (BISCRM) ...

In parallel, the emergence of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) revolutionized the field of genome engineering, allowing the ...

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CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing exploits the CRISPR-Cas system to modify a genome in a targeted manner. Guided by RNA, the Cas9 endonuclease breaks DNA at a target sequence. Imprecise repair of the ...

Genomics technologies, while powerful, are not sufficient to bring precision medicine into routine clinical practice.

Bigger, tastier tomatoes and eggplants could soon grace our dinner plates thanks to Johns Hopkins scientists who have ...

Other similar projects around the world The first Human Genome Project — which was an international consortium funded ... There has also been a European effort to sequence 1+ Million Genomes across 24 ...

Potatoes are being gene-edited to resist fungi in the warm, wet Peruvian Andes. Sorghum is being taught to resist parasitic ...

Recombinase efficiency increases allow Qi Biodesign to insert 20-30 kb (5 or 6 genes) at one time at one location across a variety of different crop genetics. In addition, a large team at Qi Biodesign ...

A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ...