CRISPR’s promise of curing diseases hit a setback when researchers discovered that AZD7648, a molecule designed to improve precision, also caused catastrophic hidden damage to DNA. Instead of perfect ...

Around the turn of the century, microbiologists at Danisco USA Inc. had a problem: The bacteria they used to make yogurt and cheese were getting infected with viruses. Investigating more deeply, the ...

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 ...