Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 ...
A domestic research team is developing an anticancer technology that identifies and removes DNA mutations found only in cancer cells without affecting normal cells. Unlike existing targeted anticancer ...
Learn more about the medical treatments CRISPR could improve and the ethical concerns it raises.
The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not without risk. When this type of "genetic surgery" is performed on DNA, for ...
Artist's rendering of a lipid nanoparticle (blue spherical shape at left) supplemented by amino acids (depicted as chemical compounds) fusing with the cell membrane (red) to deliver therapeutic cargo ...
Quantitative confocal imaging makes it easier for scientists to verify muscle protein restoration following delivery of Cas9 mRNA via targeted lipid nanoparticles. Limb‑girdle muscular dystrophies ...
Targeted CRISPR lipid nanoparticles eliminated 50% of tumors in mice with head and neck cancer. Researchers from Tel Aviv University (Israel), led by Razan Masarwy, have investigated utilizing CRISPR ...