Results reported in a recent Science paper provide the first experimental evidence to support the hypothesis that prokaryotes possess a defence system that might be analogous to eukaryotic RNA ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Since the bacterial-origin CRISPR-Cas system rose to popularity as a genome editing tool, scientists have wondered whether other genome editors ...

The CRISPR-Cas5-HNH/Cascade complex, which serves as an immune defense system in prokaryotes, has long been studied for its ability to protect bacteria from invading genetic materials. However ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Like the human immune system, bacteria learn from past infections. CRISPR sequences—short snippets of DNA from previous viruses—guide destructive ...

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.

Beam Therapeutics said Monday that it used a form of CRISPR called base editing to correct, in several patients, a mutation that drives a debilitating lung condition that may affect tens of ...

Aude Bernheim is a microbiologist studying how bacteria defend against viruses. She earned her PhD at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, researching CRISPR-Cas evolution, and completed a postdoc at the ...