CRISPR

Farming Is Headed Toward A Gene-Editing Revolution, And Hoping The Public Comes Along, Too

Madelyn Beck

Sci-fi writers have long warned about the dangers of modifying organisms. They come in forms ranging from accidentally creating a plague of killer...
Health, Science & Environment

Wash U study pinpoints how arthritis-causing virus invades cells

Shahla Farzan

Washington University researchers are one step closer to understanding how a common virus transmitted by mosquitoes causes chronic arthritis.Like other…
Health, Science & Environment

Monsanto gets license to use gene editing tech CRISPR to engineer crops

Eli Chen

Monsanto has acquired a license to engineer crops using the revolutionary gene editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9. The tool is considered more…