$70M funding will catalyze a bold new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield to apply precision genome editing to microbial communities. BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Audacious ...

Profluent raised $35 million in venture capital funding last month backed by Spark Capital, Insight Partners and Air Street Capital alongside a syndicate of angel investors from OpenAI, Salesforce, ...

Gene-editing tool CRISPR has helped create a new treatment for sickle cell disease, and other applications are being tested ...

Using CRISPR, an immune system that bacteria use to protect themselves from viruses, scientists have harnessed the power to edit genetic information within cells. In fact, the first CRISPR-based ...

The main function of CRISPR-Cas systems, the revolutionary tool scientists now employ to edit genes, is to defend bacteria against threats such as viruses called bacteriophages. Researchers have ...