For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...
A new skin-applied gene therapy uses lipid nanoparticles to deliver gene editing into skin stem cells, correcting ...
A new CRISPR-based one-off procedure that lowers "bad" cholesterol has been approved to enter Phase I human trial. If ...
A research team has successfully demonstrated the world's first gene-editing treatment for Leber's hereditary optic ...
Scientists achieved a genetic breakthrough by removing an extra human chromosome using gene-editing technology. This landmark study successfully deleted the surplus chromosome 21 responsible for Down ...
Researchers reprogrammed bacterial bridge recombinases to edit large genomic regions in mammalian cells, revealing a ...
A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies. His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, ...
In a Phase 1, first-in-human trial, a one-time infusion of an investigational CRISPR-Cas9 therapy targeting angiopoietin-like protein 3 (ANGPTL3) was safe and reduced LDL cholesterol by nearly 50% and ...
A multidisciplinary committee of experts studied the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine -- including human germline ...
A year ago, Dr. Matthew Porteus, a genetics researcher at Stanford, received an out-of-the-blue email from a young Chinese scientist, asking to meet. How to Stop Rogue Gene-Editing of Human Embryos?