The need to change regulations around gene-editing treatments was endorsed in November by the head of the US Food and Drug ...

The CRISPR gene-editing tool can be used to silence an important hepatitis B virus gene, a proof-of-concept in vitro study suggests. "It's the first time we've seen CRISPR editing done in a hepatitis ...

As CRISPR moves from lab success to real-world medicine, 2026 will test whether these revolutionary gene-editing therapies ...

A patient death in a CRISPR trial halts gene editing studies, raising critical safety questions. What this means for the ...

Scientists have corrected gene mutations in mice causing an ultra-rare disease by editing DNA directly in the brain with a single injection, a feat with profound implications for patients with ...

Gene therapy has long promised to provide a solution for genetic blood disorders, but delivering on that promise has proven complex due to challenges including difficulties delivering the editing ...

David Liu and Richard Merkin of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Columbia professor Sam Sternberg, have developed a new, targeted means of inserting entire genes into human DNA ...

Advanced biotechnology repurposes two bacterial immune systems to correct large stretches of DNA. Human cells that have been edited with the new retron-based gene editing technology. Orange dots mark ...

Gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 have many uses in the area of food and agriculture. They can combat persistent drought and disease, and improve the colour and nutritional content of food ...

Adeno-associated virus vector containing an adenine base editor provides an effective strategy to treat hereditary hearing loss caused by the R75W mutation. Moreover, this gene editing technology can ...

Imagine building a designer baby like a plushie toy in a mall. Genetic editing may offer parents this, soon. But is it okay? We ask experts.