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...research student, Sonia Azeggagh, explains the impact of this genome editing technology on biology and medicine:...CRISPR/Cas9 is a genome editing technology that has revolutionised biology. Developed in 2012 in a collaboration between the laboratories of Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR/Cas9 has allowed what were previously powerful yet time-consuming,...

...researchers from the universities of Bath, Edinburgh and Oxford have been working to unlock the mystery of how these animals get their distinctive patterns. We have discovered that the way these striking pigment patterns form is far more random than originally thought. Our findings have implications for the study of a wide range of serious embryonic disorders in humans,...

...research in the design school is investigating people mending their clothes and how to encourage it to extend garment life...How many of your socks have holes in them? Have you ever thrown away a t-shirt just because it had a tiny hole? Or maybe tossed out a pair of trousers because a button popped off? If you have – you're not alone. The truth is most of us were never...

...from understanding the function of a gene by generating genetically modified animals or cells, to gene therapy, drug research, and even agriculture. More importantly yet, the use of genome editing continues to grow and it is likely that these technologies will accelerate research, leading to important scientific breakthroughs in years to come. More on genome editing...

...research away from a strategy based purely on potency against the isolated target protein. It begins with practical, multidisciplinary, laboratory work leading to the identification of candidate molecules that are evaluated in large multinational clinical trials. The escalating costs are mirrored by the increasing demand for supply of the compound as development work...