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How CRISPR Will Revolutionize Medicine

Over the last couple of decades, biologists have honed their tools for deleting, replacing or otherwise editing DNA. Now, a strategy called CRISPR (short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) has quickly become one of the most popular ways to do genome engineering. Utilizing...
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Can CRISPR Eliminate Malaria?

Eliminating malaria may soon be possible, spreading resistance genes among mosquito populations in a chain reaction driven by CRISPR One of the nightmares associated with genetically modified (GM) crops has been the worry that a genetic change engineered in the laboratory might somehow “escape” from...
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Arguments about CRISPR technology: A Revolution of Science

CRISPR topics are hot again now. Since the very beginning researchers found CRISPR sequences in December 1987, it has been widely used in many fields. The credit is obviously. But this year researchers reported that they had edited human embryos with CRISPR, which triggered an...
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Cellecta introduces human whole genome CRISPR knockout library

Cellecta, Inc., a US-based provider of products and services for gene function analysis and biomarker discovery, announced the launch of its pooled CRISPR guide RNA (sgRNA) knockout library targeting all human protein coding genes. CRISPR technology enables researchers to specifically and permanently ‘knock out’ a...
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Scientists use CRISPR to edit immune cell DNA

Researchers have successfully used the technique CRISPR/Cas 9 to cut and paste DNA into T-cells of the immune system. The method could lead to new ways to treat cancer, type 1 diabetes and viral infections as well as facilitating research into T-cell function. ‘Genome editing...
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