Right now, for just $140, you can get your hands on one of the most powerful gene-editing tools known to science. You don’t even have to go out of your way, either. The ODIN do-it-yourself CRISPR kit, ...

CRISPR is moving out of the lab and into your home. Mammoth’s at-home kit takes advantage of this natural ability by directing CRISPR to search for very specific sequences linked to particular ...

In most scientific fields, getting your hands on cutting-edge technology is difficult to impossible. No DIY particle physicists are able to measure the mass of the Higgs Boson in their garage. Access ...

BURLINGAME — On the kitchen table of his cramped apartment, Josiah Zayner is performing the feat that is transforming biology. In tiny vials, he’s cutting, pasting and stirring genes, as simply as ...

Synthego wants to make gene-editing tools more accessible to scientists around the world. To that end, the Bay Area biotech has raised $110 million in series C funding to ramp up capacity for its ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

Scientists have developed an inexpensive new test that can rapidly diagnose COVID-19 infections, a timely advance that comes as clinicians and public health officials are scrambling to cope with ...

WATSONVILLE — High school students in the biomedical engineering class at Mount Madonna School in Watsonville recently conducted a gene editing experiment using CRISPR technology under the guidance of ...

CRISPR, the gene-editing technology, has been one of the major breakthroughs of biology in the last two decades. And while students learn about the capability to cut, paste, and alter genes, it’s rare ...