CRISPR and Genome Editing

As the climate changes, we urgently need to engineer plants that can withstand harsher climatic conditions and exposure to new pests and diseases. Genome editing using CRISPR technology may be a key approach to improving agricultural production.

In this list, discover some of the remarkable ways in which CRISPR technology is being used throughout science.

The Nobel Prize winning CRISPR-Cas genome editing technology is being adopted for a wide variety of research applications. In this article, we will explore what these applications are and outline the progress of CRISPR methodologies in recent years, in addition to current bottlenecks in CRISPR research and how we can look to address them.

Verve Therapeutics is utilizing two of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the twenty-first century – DNA sequencing and genome editing – to design a one-time treatment for lowering cholesterol.