A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

Recently, Professor Frédéric Veyrier at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and his team developed a new genetic tool based on a family of specific enzymes called Ssn that allows ...

Developed from a derivative of the immune system of bacteria, CRISPR enables double strands of nucleotides in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to be cut. This makes it possible to specifically modify a ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

Human cells contain chromosomes, which are threaded structures that contain genes made of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA ... itself to the chromosome. Two strands of molecules make up each piece ...