Scientists Map How Genome Editing Could Arm Rice Against Drought, Salt and Heat
A new review outlines how CRISPR-based tools are being used to modify stress-responsive genes in rice and what still limits ...
Tag: Genome editing
Amplification Editing Duplicates Genomic Sequences from Base Pairs to Chromosomal Scale
A new genome-editing protocol called amplification editing uses paired prime-editing guides to duplicate genomic sequences ranging from tens of base ...
Rice seed vigor traced to stage-by-stage transcriptional control across the seed life cycle
A review argues that rice seed vigor is a life-cycle trait shaped by transcriptional networks acting from grain filling through ...
Cryo-EM reveals how a retrotransposon and CRISPR–Cas9 team up to insert genes
Cryo-electron microscopy structures of the zebra finch R2 retrotransposon, alone and bound to Cas9, reveal how target-primed reverse transcription initiates ...
Prime and Base Editing Correct ALS-Causing SOD1 Mutations in Human Stem Cells
Researchers corrected two SOD1 mutations linked to familial ALS in human induced pluripotent stem cells, achieving roughly 10% correction with ...
Fluorescent Reporter System Boosts Prime Editing Efficiency in Stem Cells
A new protocol details PINE-TREE, a transient fluorescent reporter system that enriches prime-edited human pluripotent stem cells and yields up ...
SmartPE boosts prime editing efficiency in dicot crop plants
A new prime editing system called SmartPE raises editing efficiencies up to 38-fold in dicot crops including tomato, soybean and ...
Germline Stem Cell Transplantation Could Scale Up Genome Editing in Farmed Fish
A review argues that editing germline stem cells in culture and transplanting them into sterile surrogates could overcome the scalability ...
Bibliometric review finds genome editing missing from Ficus research landscape
A systematic bibliometric analysis of 25 years of Ficus literature shows that only about 11.3 percent of publications address genomic ...
Banana DMR6 induction tracks Fusarium wilt progression in Prata-Ana
A controlled infection study links late induction of the banana susceptibility gene MusaDMR6 to Fusarium wilt progression in the commercially ...
Polish Scepticism Targets Food, Not Biotechnology Itself
A review of 12 Polish studies finds that public acceptance of agricultural biotechnology depends strongly on its purpose, with medical, ...
The application of the CRISPR-Cas system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections
A 2026 review describes CRISPR-Cas as a promising strategy for addressing drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections across resistance, diagnostics, genome editing, ...
Review maps CRISPR-Cas9 advances in editing precision, delivery and therapeutic applications
A 2026 review summarizes advances in CRISPR-Cas9 precision, delivery and primary-cell engineering for genetic diseases and diabetes, while the available ...
Free-Base Editing Delivers Cleaner DNA Changes in Crops
A modular cytidine base editor that separates its Cas9 nickase and deaminase produced fewer unwanted DNA changes in moss and ...
CAR-T Cell Therapy Faces Its Next Test: Solid Tumours, Safer Designs and Lower Costs
A comprehensive review maps the engineering, biomarker, manufacturing and economic innovations that will determine whether CAR-T cell therapy can move ...
CRISPR frame-restoring edit revives lost tomato gene and boosts fruit nutrition
Researchers used a temperature-tolerant LbCas12a genome editing system to restore the reading frame of a loss-of-function SlGLK2 allele in tomato, ...
Fluorescent Tagging Toolkit Illuminates the Hidden Architecture of the Worm Cuticle
Researchers built 105 fluorescently tagged extracellular matrix proteins in C. elegans, creating a standardized atlas that reveals how the collagen-rich ...
Two-Layer Gene Editing Delivers Elite Herbicide-Tolerant Crops
Researchers combined structure-guided protein design with cis-regulatory editing at the native HPPD locus to create elite herbicide-tolerance alleles in rice ...
PrimeStack: New Gene-Stacking Tool Writes Large DNA Cargos Into Rice Genomes at Precise Sites
Scientists have developed PrimeStack, a break-free genome-editing platform that combines prime editing with the Bxb1 integrase to insert large multigene ...
Wild Relatives Hold the Genetic Keys to Future-Proof Crops, Review Finds
A new review argues that crop wild relatives hold vast untapped genetic diversity, but translating it into better cultivars requires ...
