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Engineered mini CRISPR enzyme gets a 60-fold power boost for gene editing

A tiny molecular scissor that once barely worked in human cells has been transformed into a high-performance genome-editing platform, thanks to a clever engineering strategy that s...

Germany treats 1st patient with CRISPR therapy since approval

A patient in Germany has been successfully treated with a drug based on CRISPR gene-editing technology for the first time since the therapy was approved, the Charité medical school...

Near-Perfect Long Reads Reveal Hidden Mosaicism Left Behind by CRISPR Gene Editing

CRISPR-Cas9 has transformed the life sciences by giving researchers a seemingly simple tool for cutting DNA at chosen locations, but a new study published in Genome Medicine delive...

Great gene editing. Now prove it without overcomplicating the analysis

Gene editing is moving from lab bench to approved therapies. But how should sponsors measure editing efficiency without unnecessary complexity? The post Great gene editing. Now pro...

Study shows limits of 'precise' gene editing in human embryos

New cutting-edge techniques can accurately edit genes in human embryos—giving scientists indispensable tools for understanding normal human development—but come with important risk...

Discovery of CRISPR's long lost ancestor may expand gene-editing toolkit

CRISPR may be a powerful technology for gene editing, but the system existed in bacteria long before scientists began using it. For billions of years, CRISPR has acted as a natural...

New CRISPR-Based Tool Enables Genome-Wide Mutagenesis of Bacteriophages

A CRISPR-based method for disrupting genes across bacteriophage genomes has been developed, creating a faster route to uncover gene functions and engineer phages for potential ther...

Prime Assembly Expands Genome Editing with Precise, Large-Scale DNA Integration

A new genome-editing method, prime assembly, precisely inserts long DNA sequences into targeted genomic locations, potentially enabling mutation-agnostic gene therapies for diverse...

The Next Gene-Editing Technology May Also Be the Oldest

Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective.

This startup wants to prove gene-editing embryos is safe for making healthy babies

Origin Genomics aims to prove that the potential benefits of its technology for editing disease-causing genes in human embryos outweigh the risks.

CRISPR could help doctors attack blood cancer without destroying healthy cells

Researchers used CRISPR to remove CD33 from donor stem cells, potentially giving doctors a way to attack aggressive blood cancers without destroying the healthy cells patients need...

Donor-matched prime editing enables precise, library-ready kilobase DNA insertions

Editing Without Cutting: New Prime-Editing Strategy Writes Kilobase-Scale DNA Into the Genome For years, the promise of precisely writing new DNA into the genome has been constrain...

Where Will CRISPR Therapeutics Be in 10 Years if Gene Editing Fulfills Its Promise?

With a medicine on the market and plenty of projects in the pipeline, this company's trajectory could be very positive for investors without being a smooth ride.

Forget Casgevy: CRISPR Therapeutics' Heart-Disease Data Could Matter More

The company's gene-editing-focused platform looks promising.

New gene-editing tool speeds regeneration of hard-to-breed perennial crops

‘CRISPR-Combo’ system cuts months off growing plants The post New gene-editing tool speeds regeneration of hard-to-breed perennial crops appeared first on AgriLife Today.

Where Will CRISPR Therapeutics Stock Be in 2030?

The company's expertise in gene editing could lead to more breakthroughs.

Exonuclease Boost Makes CRISPR Cas12a Cut Big Chunks Out of Sugarcane’s Daunting Genome

Researchers report the first CRISPR/Cas12a editing of sugarcane, showing that co-expressing the mTREX2 exonuclease boosts large deletions seven-fold and enables efficient multialle...

Genomes to bioreactors: Saudi Arabia’s gene editing oncology push

Saudi Arabia is pairing gene editing breakthroughs with new biomanufacturing capacity, from CRISPR oncology therapies to CDMOs like Lifera, as it builds a full biotech pipeline. Th...

A Newer Kind of Gene Editing Promises to Edit ‘Nurture’ Over ‘Nature’

Traditional gene editing rewrites DNA. But a new approach, called epigenome editing, aims to treat the molecular scars we collect throughout our lives.

New Treatment Cuts “Bad” Cholesterol in Half for a Full Year

A single infusion of an experimental CRISPR-Cas9 therapy was reported to safely lower LDL cholesterol by 52.5% and triglycerides by 47.8%, as measured 12 months after treatment. Wh...

A Biotech Founder Makes the Moral Case for Gene-Editing Human Embryos

The practice of editing the genes of embryos remains highly controversial and risky, but Origin Genomics founder Cathy Tie argues its a “moral imperative” to address hereditary dis...

CRISPR Methylation Editing Rewrites the Cancer Epigenome Toward Causation

Cancer has long been understood as a disease of the genome, driven by mutations that rewire the instructions encoded in DNA. Over the past three decades, however, a parallel truth...

PrimeStack editors enable efficient and site-specific integration of large multigene cargos in plants

by Edith Sánchez, Khalid Sedeek, Haroon Butt, Magdy Mahfouz Precise, site-specific integration of large DNA sequences into plant genomes is a long-standing goal of crop biotechnol...

Doudna team finds ancient CRISPR ancestor with unusual gapped DNA code