Bioengineering professor and The Grainger College of Engineering's Dean, Rashid Bashir, led a team of researchers in a ...

Oct. 28, 2024 — Using state-of-the-art technology, researchers have identified several specific steps needed for CRISPR to become active and perform its gene editing ... Single-Dose Gene Therapy ...

Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing research focusing on modifying pig organs to reduce rejection and improve ...

Transformational drugs rarely emerge from a targeted, application-driven approach. Rather, they arise from deep scientific inquiry over many years, an approach that only robust, early-stage funding ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

HDBuzz reported live updates on Bluesky from the 2025 HD Therapeutics Conference. Read on for coverage of Day 3. #CHDI2025 ...

Have you thought of any names yet, Richard, very popular or possibly arcade? Oh, you sound just like Daddy Pig. He keeps suggesting names, but I think we'll find the right name once the baby is here.

Rather than being famous only in the gene editing field, by revealing the collateral cleavage activity of Cas12a, Cas13a, and Cas14 effectors, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats ...

To gain a better understanding of its anti-tumor mechanism, we perform a temporally resolved CRISPR-Cas9 screen to identify factors governing the DAC response. We show that DNA damage generated by ...

Helen Branswell Towana Looney, the 53-year-old patient who in November became the third person ever to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, is headed home to Alabama. “I feel ...

1 At conferences like Pittcon, where analytical chemistry and life science collide, CRISPR’s growing influence is unmistakable, taking a prominent place in the Bioanalytical & Life Sciences and ...

Building a gene editor took months. With CRISPR even high-schoolers can get hold of editing systems in the time it takes to ...