Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The ...

The field of biotechnology has made significant strides in enhancing agricultural productivity by developing crops that can ...

Study shows how photolithography techniques can be used to not just make a micron-scale shape, but control it, too.

Remember "Baby KJ"? Now CRISPR pioneers have partnered with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to launch center for curing rare ...

A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program ...

KJ Muldoon recently made history by becoming the first patient to receive a personalized CRISPR gene therapy, designed specifically for the genetic mutations causing his rare metabolic disease. | KJ ...

Personalized CRISPR cures for children born with rare genetic diseases are now a step closer to being more widely available.

Rare genetic diseases are challenging for patients and their families—made all the more overwhelming because symptoms tend to ...

No doubt 2025 will usher in many more advances in CRISPR therapies, thanks to the FDA’s new Platform Technology Designation Program, which will allow innovators to have an easier path to market.

Jennifer Doudna, one of the inventors of the breakthrough gene-editing tool CRISPR, says the technology will help the world grapple with the growing risks of climate change by delivering crops and ...

The gene-editing technique CRISPR disabled HIV that lay dormant in immune cells in a lab experiment, raising hopes for an eventual cure ...

Live Science spoke with biochemist Virginijus Šikšnys, whose work helped establish CRISPR as a gene-editing system.