A 19-year-old Canadian man becomes the first human cured through prime gene editing after doctors corrected a rare genetic ...
A version of this Priestley Medal address will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2026 meeting ...
A new method for safely inserting large chunks of DNA into genomes has now measured up in mice, potentially paving the way ...
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 ...
For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and consumer-facing startups. Gene editing, once confined to rare diseases and lab ...
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 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, ...
Cas9, Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases (TALENs), and Zinc-Finger nucleases (ZFNs) have demonstrated great utility, primarily for genetic knock-out applications, none have been adopted ...