These discoveries may seem to belong to completely different worlds. One edits DNA, another targets a viral infection, some change cholesterol biology, while others remove a cancer-related protein and act on several metabolic pathways at once.
For a long time, scientists believed that much of our DNA was just biologically static, i.e., sequences that didn’t code for anything meaningful. These...
“The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous -to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook”, says George M. Church,...
E. Charpentier and A. Doudna have made a landmark discovery for the CRISPR/Cas 9 method employed in genome editing, and received 2020's Nobel prize in chemistry.
Scientists have been working on cancer treatment in the United States used CRISPR―a gene editing tool―for the first time for the growth of genetically...
