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

An INRS research team has identified a new family of enzymes that can make precise cuts in single-stranded DNA. A few years ...

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 ...

For the first time, Professor Veyrier and his team at INRS have discovered a family of enzymes that can cut specific sequences in single-stranded DNA. These enzymes, called site-specific ...

The enzymes that handle DNA molecules are often called "polymerases," but the -ase suffix denotes an enzyme. When not ...