To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...
UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable ...
CRISPR technology, a revolutionary tool in genetic engineering, has empowered Lambert's iGEM team to tackle a significant health issue: Lyme disease, which affects nearly half a million Americans ...
Scientists developed wheat that helps create its own natural fertilizer, promising cleaner and more affordable farming.
Teens at a Georgia high school may have come up with a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. They took their idea to ...
Scientists are genetically engineering microbes to withstand industrial conditions for biofuel production. Researchers found ...
The first gene-editing therapies for HIV/Aids are entering trials but the virus is proving once again that it is a master at ...
Evo’s success wasn’t limited to proteins. When they tested a different toxin that had an RNA-based inhibitor, the system ...
The real revolution came in 2012, when researchers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier harnessed CRISPR, a natural bacterial defense system. In bacteria, CRISPR cuts out invading viruses’ DNA ...
Researchers have developed VIRE, a database that integrates approximately 1.7 million viral genomes derived from more than ...
The CRISPR gene scissors are only of limited use to detect cancer-causing genes in animals because the method interferes with their immune system ...