Youtube channel 'Seeker' explores how we can we predict what a person's face looks like based solely on a sample of their DNA. A new…
Crippling just three of the malaria parasite’s 5000 genes could create a powerful, safe vaccine against a disease that sickens nearly 200 million people each…
Secrets, disease and beauty are all written in the human genome, the complete set of genetic instructions needed to build a human being. Now, as…
For four billion years, what lived and died on Earth depended on two principles: natural selection and random mutation. Then humans came along and changed…
CRISPR gene drives allow scientists to change sequences of DNA and guarantee that the resulting edited genetic trait is inherited by future generations, opening up…
Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which…
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has revolutionized genetic engineering. This groundbreaking discovery by scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier has brought medical research light-years closer to finding…
This animation depicts the CRISPR-Cas9 method for genome editing – a powerful new technology with many applications in biomedical research, including the potential to treat…