Tweaking one gene with CRISPR switched the way a snail shell spirals
The first gene-edited snails confirm which gene is responsible for the direction of the shell’s spiral.
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The search for the kryptonite that can stop CRISPR
Powerful gene-editing tools have the potential to heal—or to harm. Now there’s a race to develop the antidote to the nex...
Montana State postdoctoral researcher wins LSRF fellowship for CRISPR research
(Montana State University) Andrew Santiago-Frangos, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Blake Wiedenheft at Montana...
A Nobel Prize winner argues banning CRISPR babies won’t work
Human gene editing needs responsible regulation, but a ban isn’t the way to go, says Nobel laureate David Baltimore.
Genome engineers made more than 13,000 CRISPR edits in a single cell
A team at George Church’s Harvard lab wants to redesign species with large-scale DNA changes.
CRISPR experts are calling for a global moratorium on heritable gene editing
Some of the biggest names in gene editing want to stop anyone from playing around with cells that pass on changes to the...
A CRISPR spin-off causes unintended typos in DNA
One type of CRISPR gene editor makes frequent and widespread mistakes, studies in mice and rice reveal.
CRISPR reveals the secret life of antimicrobial peptides
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Using CRISPR, scientists at EPFL have carried out extensive work on a little-...
China’s CRISPR twins: A time line of news
It’s been three months since news broke that twin girls had been genetically modified using CRISPR. There’s a lot to cat...
China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced
New research suggests that a controversial gene-editing experiment to make children resistant to HIV may also have enhan...
