Bioengineering professor and The Grainger College of Engineering's Dean, Rashid Bashir, led a team of researchers in a ...

Researchers at Duke University and North Carolina State University have discovered a handful of new CRISPR-Cas systems that ...

CRISPR technology offers innovative solutions for pandemic preparedness, enhancing diagnostics, antiviral therapies, and ...

Bioengineering professor and The Grainger College of Engineering's Dean, Rashid Bashir, led a team of researchers in a project that's resulted in new ...

DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another—are key to bacterial evolution and the development of ...

Yet others, called base editors, change one letter of the DNA code to another. So why do we call it CRISPR? Cas proteins are used by bacteria to destroy viral DNA. They add bits of viral DNA to ...

A prime example of this ongoing battle is the CRISPR-Cas defense system in bacteria, countered by anti-CRISPR proteins (Acrs) in phages, which specifically block these bacterial “gene scissors”.

a variant of the type I-E CRISPR-Cas system, providing insights into its DNA recognition and cleavage mechanisms. The study, published in Nature Communications, was conducted by researchers from ...

CRISPR has two main components. One is an RNA molecule that’s like a bloodhound, seeking out and tethering the setup to a target DNA section. Once docked, the second component, a Cas protein, slices ...