Tulane University researchers have developed a CRISPR-based test that diagnoses Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) - a life-threatening fungal infection primarily affecting children and ...

The obesity rate has more than doubled in the last 30 years, affecting more than one billion people worldwide. This prevalent condition is also linked to other metabolic disorders, including type 2 ...

Breakthrough CRISPR-based test offers faster, more accurate diagnosis for fungal pneumonia New diagnostic tool detects Pneumocystis jirovecii infection in just 45 minutes—offering a safer, more ...

A University of Pennsylvania team showed a gene-edited pig liver kept alive in a perfusion chamber could support the circulatory system of a human.

A new generation of CRISPR technology developed at UNSW Sydney offers a safer path to treating genetic diseases like sickle cell, while also proving beyond doubt that chemical tags on DNA—often ...

Surgeons think the first transplantation of a pig lung in a human is an exciting step forward for the field, but many questions remain open ...

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 ...

First on Ginkgo’s shopping list was Proof Diagnostics, the Cambridge, Mass.-based CRISPR test developer co-founded by Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Since the pandemic ...