Biomedical engineers believe they have discovered the physical mechanism that causes high doses of antibiotics to promote the spread of antibiotic resistance between bacteria. The culprit, they say, is an overabundance of 'jumping genes,' called transposons, that carry the genetic instructions for resistance from the cell's source code to plasmids that shuttle between cells.| ScienceDaily
The AI combed through hundreds of thousands of genomes from rare bacteria—including those found in breweries, coal mines, and dog saliva.| SingularityHub
Prime editing can change individual DNA letters, delete letters, or insert blocks of new letters into the genome, with minimal damage to the DNA strand.| SingularityHub
Arc Institute is a independent nonprofit research organization headquartered in Palo Alto, California.| arcinstitute.org
CRISPR had a huge year. Even better, it’s still a work in progress, with the potential to reshape biotechnology for decades to come.| Singularity Hub
Researchers have discovered the first programmable RNA-guided system discovered in eukaryotes. The technology, known as Fanzor, has the potential to be more easily delivered to cells and tissues than CRISPR-Cas systems, and further refinements could make them a valuable new technology for human genome editing.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
