For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...
In late 2021, Amber Salzman interviewed for a job that she had no intention of taking. A relatively new start-up company, called Epicrispr Biotechnologies, was looking for a chief executive, and it ...
Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...
Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...
Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique ...
A lot of things need to go right on a molecular level for immune cells to launch an adaptive response to an infection.