The power of CRISPR became definitively clear when the first CRISPR-based gene therapy, Casgevy (exa-cel), won regulatory approvals for the treatment of sickle cell disease. But CRISPR’s applications ...
Owen T. Tuck, a graduate student in Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California. Owen T. Tuck, a graduate student in Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks ...
NASA astronaut Nick Hague runs an analysis with the miniPCR hardware for Genes in Space-6 during Expedition 59. This experiment explored how space radiation damages DNA and how cells repair that ...
Most gene-editing tools are blind to context. Point them at a DNA sequence and they cut, whether that sequence sits inside a tumor or inside a perfectly healthy organ. A study published in Nature in ...