Uncrowned is a new destination for all things MMA, boxing, wrestling, and more, featuring Ariel Helwani. Jennifer Doudna, one of the pioneers of the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, thinks the ...

Lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, best known as the delivery vehicle for the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines received by billions of people, are now at the center of a much larger medical revolution. Researchers ...

Co‑injecting three common amino acids with LNPs dramatically boosted both mRNA delivery and CRISPR gene editing efficiency in preclinical models.

LOGAN, UTAH, USA – Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens’ DNA and ...

Lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, are best known as the delivery system used in the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines given to billions of people worldwide. Scientists are now exploring their potential far beyond ...

A research team has developed a single-dose CRISPR-CasRx nanotherapy targeting the host enzyme cathepsin L (referred to as SCNC) that not only reduces SARS-CoV-2 viral load during acute infection but ...

The 10th Annual Smithies Symposium will take place on Thursday, March 26 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. (doors open at 2:30 p.m.) in the UNC Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB), Room 2204, and is open ...

CRISPR powers everything from gene editing to rapid diagnostics, but how did one of its most versatile branches arise? A new Cell study, “Functional RNA splitting drove the evolutionary emergence of ...