Silkworm (Bombyx mori) is not only an economic insect but also a model organism for life
science research. Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) disease is a major …

Clustered regularly spaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPR) structure family forms the
acquired immune system in bacteria and archaea. Recent advances in CRISPR/Cas …

African swine fever is a devastating viral disease of domestic and wild pigs against which no
vaccine or therapy is available. Therefore, we applied the CRISPR (clustered regularly …

The lepidopteran model silkworm, Bombyx mori, is an important economic insect. Viruses
cause serious economic losses in sericulture; thus, the economic importance of these …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are effective molecules produced by the innate immune
system of most organisms to fend off invading microbes and regarded as promising …

Insects are the largest group of animals. Nearly all organisms, including insects, have viral
pathogens. An important domesticated economic insect is the silkworm moth Bombyx mori …

Male fertility is essential for reproduction and population growth in animals. Many factors
affect male fertility, such as courtship behavior, sperm quantity, and sperm motility, among …

As CRISPR/Cas systems have been refined over time, there has been an effort to apply
them to real world problems, such as developing sequence-targeted antiviral therapies …

CRISPR/Cas12a (Cpf1) is a single RNA-guided endonuclease that provides new
opportunities for targeted genome engineering through the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Only …

Simple Summary One of the most powerful gene editing approaches is the CRISPR
(clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas (CRISPR-associated) tool …