Belgian researchers from VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology have developed a new toolbox of 16 different short DNA sequences that allow triggering ...

Many foundational research technologies have transformed cellular therapies, moving treatments from concept to clinic. In the past decade, chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) and genome editing are two ...

New research, pioneered by a first year Ph.D. student and researchers at the University of St Andrews' School of Biology, has identified an important new component of the CRISPR genome engineering ...

Unquestionably, we will emerge from this revolutionary period with modified views of components of cells and how they operate, but only, however, to await the emergence of the next revolutionary phase ...

The United Nations predicts that there will be an additional 2.2 billion people on the planet by 2050. To help feed the growing population, the food industry must overcome several critical challenges, ...

In 2025, CRISPR advanced gene editing with safe, effective therapies and AI tools, marking a shift towards real-world ...

Prof KC Bansal, former director of the ICAR–National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, is a leading plant biotechnologist specialising in genetic engineering and CRISPR-based genome editing. He is ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought. The ...