Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Head of Biomedical Engineering Programme, Director of CUHKSZ-Boyalife Joint Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine Engineering, Team Leader of Integrated Devices and ...

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated proteins (Cas) system is a bacterial defense mechanism that uses RNA-guided enzymes to cut specific sequences ...

The rapid spread of animal diseases and pathogen evolution have long posed significant threats to the healthy development of ...

The emergence of advanced genome editing technologies has revolutionized research in life sciences, offering an unprecedented way to uncover unknown biological functions and innovative therapeutic ...

CRISPR-Cas systems are adaptive immune systems found in prokaryotes that defend against invading nucleic acids through CRISPR RNA-guided cleavage. Type V CRISPR-Cas (Cas12) systems, in particular, ...

CRISPR powers everything from gene editing to rapid diagnostics, but how did one of its most versatile branches arise? A new Cell study, “Functional RNA splitting drove the evolutionary emergence of ...

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins are core components of fast-evolving therapeutic gene editing tools. Scientists have used CRISPR ...

The applications of CRISPR gene editing technology are ever-expanding. A quick search of the latest publications mentioning CRISPR reveals uses in plant genome engineering, biosensing, genome ...

Another potentially game-changing discovery has come out of the lab of Feng Zhang, PhD. This time, they uncovered the first programmable RNA-guided system in eukaryotes. Just a few months ago, the ...

Infection with the pathogenic yeast fungus Candida auris (C. auris) can wreak havoc on the health of hospital patients and residents of nursing homes, especially those who are already weakened by ...