ERS Genomics Limited ('ERS'), the CRISPR licensing company, and Jumpcode Genomics ('Jumpcode'), a life science tools company ...

Feb. 13, 2025 — A new study unravels the relationship between mitofusins (mitochondrial proteins) and autophagy. Using gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9, the team has been able to study these ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into ...

A Peninsula biotech company raised $68 million from investors — including a venture philanthropy fund started by Lululemon ...

The second tool is the CRISPR-Cas9 system, which allows easy and precise editing of any region of the genome. When it comes to traditional immortalized cell lines, such as HeLa or HEK293, cutting with ...

Expanding CRISPR's Potential Since its discovery, CRISPR (“Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats”), which ...

Over the past 15 years, developments in the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9 have produced significant new ...

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Gene editing, particularly CRISPR/Cas9-based systems, provides a more precise and efficient alternative. CRISPR/Cas9 allows for precise modifications to the genome, including knock-ins, knockouts, ...

CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world. The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell.

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...