Gene manipulation that created sleek and trim roundworms may ultimately help scientists develop new obesity treatments. Harvard biologist Gary Ruvkun used a new technique to identify about 400 ...

Conditional Gene Knockout Techniques. News-Medical, viewed 13 June 2025, https: ... AI and film animation tools lead to breakthrough in coronavirus drug discovery.

Traditional gene knockout methods, including CRISPR-Cas9, typically result in complete loss of function, making it difficult ...

Credit: vchal/Shuttershock. In some genetic diseases, only a particular portion of the gene might be responsible for its occurrence. In such cases, gene knockout technique is not appropriate as it ...

Use of gene knockouts in immunology. The first problem in immunology addressed by the generation of a knockout mouse was the function of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in lymphocytes.

The team has achieved the first gene knockout NSF pod using the squid Doryteuthis pealeii. That particular squid is described as an "exceptionally important" research organism for biology over the ...