CRISPR News and Research

Latest CRISPR News and Research

Precision NanoSystems launches NanoAssemblr Scale-Up system to support production of novel medicines

Precision NanoSystems has launched the NanoAssemblr™ Scale-Up system to support the clinical development of nanomedicines.

From Precision NanoSystems Inc. 9 Mar 2017

Graduate students develop novel microfluidic platform for monitoring single cell-level electroporation

Graduate students Mingde 'Jack' Zheng and Joseph Sherba have developed a novel, microfluidic platform for monitoring electroporation and molecular delivery at the single cell-level as part of a collaborative re-search team led by Professors Jeffrey Zahn and David Shreiber in the Department of Biomedical Engineer-ing and Professors Hao Lin and Jerry Shan in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers,

3 Mar 2017

New software tool enables quick, easy deletion of DNA in living cells

Until recently, genomics was a "read-only" science, but scientists have developed a tool for quick and easy deletion of DNA in living cells.

3 Mar 2017

Study establishes ENL protein as potential drug target for acute myeloid leukemia

Anyone who uses an employee badge to enter a building may understand how a protein called ENL opens new possibilities for treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a fast-growing cancer of bone marrow and blood cells and the second most common type of leukemia in children and adults.

2 Mar 2017

MSK researchers harness power of CRISPR/Cas9 to create more-potent CAR T cells

Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have harnessed the power of CRISPR/Cas9 to create more-potent chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells that enhance tumor rejection in mice.

23 Feb 2017

Scientists engineer smallest CRISPR-Cas9 system to date

Scientists at the Center for Genome Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Science0, in collaboration with KIM Eunji and KIM Jeong Hun have engineered the smallest CRISPR-Cas9 to date, delivered it to the muscle cells and in the eyes of mice via adeno-associated viruses and used it to modify a gene causing blindness.

21 Feb 2017

Researchers create novel model that reveals cellular, molecular events driving leukemia progression

Mount Sinai researchers have created a novel model that shows the step-by-step progression from normal blood cells to leukemia and its precursor diseases, creating replicas of the stages of the disease to test the efficacy of therapeutic interventions at each stage, according to a study to be published in Cell Stem Cell.

16 Feb 2017

IBS scientists modify fat content in soybean oil using new CRISPR-Cpf1 technology

A team from the Center for Genome Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Research (IBS), succeeded in editing two genes that contribute to the fat contents of soybean oil using the new CRISPR-Cpf1 technology: an alternative of the more widely used gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9. The results of this new plant gene editing method, applied to soybeans and wild tobacco genes, are published in Nature Communications.

16 Feb 2017

Yale researchers find potential new way to combat brain cancer

A recent Yale study may have found a new way to fight brain cancer.

15 Feb 2017

IDT offers cost-effective and most complete spectrum of CRISPR genome editing systems

Reflecting its drive to provide innovative solutions to the genomics community, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is the first genomics company to develop and bring to market a complete ribonucleoprotein-based Cpf1 CRISPR system.

2 Feb 2017

UT Southwestern scientists discover gene that protects gut from IBD

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a gene that protects the gut from inflammatory bowel disease.

2 Feb 2017

Scientists develop unique method to fix genes in living organisms

A unique gene-editing method that efficiently inserts DNA into genes located in dividing and non-dividing cells of living rats has been developed by a team of international researchers, including scientists from KAUST.

31 Jan 2017

NTNU researcher uses big data to understand how immune system responds to viral attack

An enzyme found in many bacteria, including the bacterium that gives us strep throat, has given mankind a cheap and effective tool with which to edit our own genes.

30 Jan 2017

ACMG issues new Points to Consider statement on potential clinical application of genome editing

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics is weighing in on the genome editing/CRISPR debate with a new Points to Consider statement, "Genome Editing in Clinical Genetics."

29 Jan 2017

Study shows how global climate changes can affect exposure of methylmercury to ecosystems, humans

Global warming is expected to increase runoff and input of organic matter to aquatic ecosystems in large regions of the Northern hemisphere including the Baltic Sea.

29 Jan 2017

TSRI researchers develop first stable semisynthetic single-celled organism

Life’s genetic code has only ever contained four natural bases. These bases pair up to form two “base pairs”—the rungs of the DNA ladder—and they have simply been rearranged to create bacteria and butterflies, penguins and people. Four bases make up all life as we know it.

25 Jan 2017