Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But scientists have only begun to unlock the secrets of this ancient arms race. All ...

Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Augmenting Humans. Jennifer Doudna's gene-editing technology CRISPR can now manipulate populations of microbes. This new field, called precision microbiome editing ...

A growing body of research suggests humans owe an evolutionary debt to Asgard archaea, a group of single-celled organisms discovered in hydrothermal vents in 2015. "The first one was found in this ...

DUBLIN & MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ERS Genomics Limited (‘ERS’), the CRISPR licensing Company, and Université de Montréal (‘UdeM’), a leading Canadian research institution renowned for scientific ...

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)—and the University of Illinois (U.S ...