We have written about the promise of gene therapy to correct genetic disease many times. An exciting development happened ...

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

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach ...

Durable reprogramming of human T cells may now be possible thanks to a new technique based on the CRISPRoff and CRISPRon methodology. Researchers from the Arc Institute, Gladstone Institutes, and the ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated cardiomyopathy) and muscle weakness (muscular dystrophies). Many of these diseases ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...

OPEN TO DEBATE: As modern warfare becomes increasingly automated and reliant on artificial intelligence, the question of who, or what, should have ultimate control over lethal decision-making systems ...

Sept 26 (Reuters) - Biotech company Factor Bioscience sued rival Cellectis (ALCLS.PA), opens new tab and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca (AZN.L), opens new tab in Delaware federal court on Friday for ...

A tragic gene therapy death that stalled the field for a decade — Sept. 17, 1999 In the new study, researchers used CRISPR gene editing to insert the ancient uricase gene into the genomes of human ...

CRANFIELD, England — Researchers have successfully performed the first DNA-free gene editing on raspberry plants, marking a scientific advance that could eventually lead to improved berries without ...

Near the end of the classic 1942 movie Casablanca when Major Strasser is shot, Captain Renault famously pretends not to know who fired the gun and orders his officers to “round up the usual suspects.” ...

A team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) used gene editing to fix the mutation that causes a form of the rare Tay-Sachs disease in mice, sparking hope that the approach could ...