CRISPR-Cas9, a gene editing technology known for its user-friendliness, can knock genes in or out. Knocking out a gene involves inserting CRISPR-Cas9 into a cell using a guide RNA that targets the ...

Applied at the correct dosage, this creates an array of cells, each containing a deletion of an individual gene. In the 2014 paper that first described such screens, the researchers took a CRISPR ...

As a child, he visited the Galápagos, and was captivated by the islands’ stunning array of unique wildlife ... Even as other researchers swarmed into the nascent field of CRISPR research, “Prashant ...

They grab RNAs, proportional to their abundance, and take a little snippet of them — about 40 nucleotides — that they integrate in a CRISPR array. The array is simply a DNA sequence of ...