However, the ability to write a genome from scratch would unlock greater creativity in designing a desired genome — your dream home — and producing new kinds of organisms that do things that nature ...

Scientists discover next-generation system for programmable genome design. ... The study published today in Nature reports their ... The Hsu lab found that when IS110 excises itself from a genome, ...

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion.

In the past decade or so, biomedical technology has been revolutionized by a gene editing technique known as CRISPR, which uses a guide RNA molecule to direct a DNA-cutting enzyme to a specific ...

These modular, bi-specific bridge RNAs can be reprogrammed to enable sequence-specific fundamental DNA rearrangements, potentially accelerating the advancement of genome design (Fig 1). 2 ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological ...

Herpes virus reshapes the human genome for its own benefit, ... Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60534-6. ... Alternating-pressure mattress design could reduce risk of bed sores.

“The ability to programmably rearrange any two DNA molecules opens the door to breakthroughs in genome design.” Read the papers in Nature here and here. A short video of the discovery, ...

“The Sc2.0 global consortium to design and construct a synthetic genome based on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome commenced in 2006, comprising 16 synthetic chromosomes and a new-to-nature ...

More information: Soumya Kannan et al, Evolution-guided protein design of IscB for persistent epigenome editing in vivo, Nature Biotechnology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41587-025-02655-3 Journal ...