CRISPR, crispr genome editing system

Study shows that CRISPR-Cas 9 genome editing can be perfectly safe in mice. With so much being written on why we should, or shouldn’t, employ CRISPR for germline editing, a new study published in Nature Methods has shown that some of those safety concerns might...

The gene editing technology, CRISPR/Cas9, is six times more effective than other techniques at targeting specific DNA sequences in zebrafish, according to a new study from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and published in Genome Research. This discovery, which also demonstrated that the...

I work on CRISPR.  I had previously worked with the older technologies mentioned in the podcast (which I thought was a pretty good description of CRISPR to non-scientists). Honestly the potential benefits of CRISPR far out weight the dangers, in my opinion.  CRISPR should allow...

Illustration by Sébastien Thibault Three years ago, Bruce Conklin came across a method that made him change the course of his lab. Conklin, a geneticist at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California, had been trying to work out how variations in DNA affect various...

U.S. biochemist Jennifer Doudna said Thursday that she was “thrilled” to receive the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research for developing a technology that allows genes to be edited and nucleic acids to be manipulated with great precision. “This award emphasizes...

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna Source: FPA USPA NEWS – The biochemists Emmanuelle Charpentier (France) and Jennifer Doudna (USA) have been bestowed with the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, as made public in Oviedo by the Jury responsible for conferring...

IHM/National Library of Medicine The 1975 Asilomar conference helped set rules for research on DNA.                   The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to develop...

Researchers from the Creative Animodel Institute use CRISPR/Cas genetic regulatory system, manipulating mouse genome with one step into the reporter gene and the conditional allele. Now we just need several weeks rather than a few years time to generate such a complex engineering allele animals...