In this Review Article, Horvath and Barrangou describe the discovery of CRISPR–Cas systems as mechanisms of adaptive immunity in prokaryotes and explore the technological applications that have ...

CRISPR: The gene-editing tool revolutionizing biomedical research Editor's note: Since this story aired, viewers have asked about a new clinical trial that will use CRISPR to target certain cancers.

Discover how CRISPR gene editing is creating personalized cancer therapies, enhancing immunotherapy, and offering new hope for hard-to-treat cancers.

The United Kingdom has become the first country to give regulatory approval to a medical treatment involving the revolutionary CRISPR gene editing tool.

CRISPR is particularly attractive to the agricultural industry, which is always looking for a way to engineer disease- and weather-resistant crops which will increase yields and, subsequently ...

CRISPR offers an alternative to both. But if, unlike them, it is to live up to its promise, it will need to attract a continuing flow of investment—which, in turn, means chalking up some real ...

The new software facilitates a type of large-scale research that allows and simplifies in-parallel study of various parts of the DNA simultaneously, a powerful way to use the CRISPR method.

The gUIDEbook software has been developed to provide the most complete solution available for designing CRISPR genome editing experiments. The platform enables researchers to generate knock-outs, ...

Known for co-inventing CRISPR, Emmanuelle Charpentier discusses how advances in gene editing could transform agriculture, medicine and science itself ...

The first CRISPR gene-editing drug, designed to treat blood disorders, could be on the market by 2023. Here's what it means for the future of drug development.

The gene-editing technology CRISPR has been used for a variety of agricultural and public health purposes — from growing disease-resistant crops to, more recently, a diagnostic test for the virus that ...