Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned ...

Recognized in the Biotechnology category of the 2025 Top Innovations contest, small Cas12l nucleases are versatile, ...

CRISPR technology could one day create “designer babies, ” raising major ethical and social inequality concerns.

The world's first clinical trial involving the transplantation of gene-edited pig kidneys into human recipients has commenced. United Therapeutics announced the initial procedure ...

Gene editing techniques, including CRISPR, prime editing, and nucleases, allow scientists to tackle genetic diseases, cancer, ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.

Most current approaches rely on adding nuclear localization signal (NLS) motifs to the ends of Cas9 to facilitate nuclear entry. However, this method is inefficient, and much of the Cas9 that is ...

The US FDA is set to introduce a faster approval process for personalized gene editing therapies, aiming to accelerate investment and development of treatments for rare diseases, highlighted by the ...

The apparel industry accounts for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. Biotechs are working on reengineering natural products to make more sustainable textiles, which are gaining traction.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the treatment 'a powerful glimpse into the future of personalized medicine' ...

If gene-editing tomatoes proves effective, researchers hope to bring the first “sunshine tomato” to market within three years.