Researchers at Utah State University revealed new details about CRISPR immune system defenses, such as Cas12a3 systems, that ...

Gene-editing technologies show great promise for medical treatments and research, with the potential to cure thousands of ...

Natural Killer (NK) cells are a critical component of the innate immune system and play an essential role in recognizing and eliminating cancer cells. Despite their promise, current NK-based therapies ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

In 2020, Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, CRISPR-Cas9, a method for genome editing. Often referred to as “molecular scissors,” CRISPR cuts DNA at specific locations that ...

CRISPR gene editing has revolutionized the field of molecular biology, offering precise, efficient, and versatile tools for genome modification. The technology has rapidly evolved beyond the original ...

The study, published in Cancer Cell, opens new avenues for discovering approaches to enhance the antitumor activity of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) NK cell therapies against multiple cancer types ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...