CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a type of immune system that bacteria use to recognize and fight off viruses. Wiedenheft, one of the nation’s ...

RNA gene scissors (CRISPR-Cas13) are gaining significant attention as a next-generation gene therapy with fewer side effects. They can suppress infection by eliminating viral RNA, such as in ...

CRISPR-Cas13, a powerful RNA-targeting technology is gaining increasing attention as a next-generation gene therapy platform due to its precision and reduced side effects.

RNA editing’s proponents say it may be safer and more flexible than DNA editing. Those advantages, they contend, will enable RNA editing to address more diseases, including common conditions ...

RNA, a cousin of DNA, carries the gene's instructions to start the protein-making process. Editing RNA's instructions should result in temporary fixes to abnormal protein production, Zhang explained.

If DNA is the set of genetic instructions, RNA is what reads and translates those instructions into making the proteins our cells need. RNA editing, then, is also a type of gene therapy.