From seedless blackberries to cancer therapies, CRISPR is transforming food production, healthcare and agriculture.

A gene-editing tool designed to precisely rewrite the gene that causes Huntington's disease reduced toxic protein fragments ...

Two undisclosed deaths in Chinese gene-editing trials renew concerns about trial oversight, safety reporting, and ...

Researchers have used gene editing to restore hearing in adult mice with a type of inherited hearing loss. They showed that shutting down a damaged copy of a gene called a microRNA (miRNA) enabled the ...

Spread the love“`html Imagine a world where a single treatment could rewrite your genetic code, not just managing a chronic illness, but potentially eliminating it forever. For decades, this has been ...

Urnov is a professor of molecular therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a director at its Innovative Genomics Institute. In May, news broke of a biomedical first: the on-demand ...

Gene editing is now reaching the mainstream, ushering in a new era of genetic manipulation. Traditionally, inserting or deleting entire genes, regulating their expression, and altering specific ...

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 ...

Gene-editing is a handy tool for developing sophisticated medicines. A new CRISPR molecule can destroy cells that express specific signals. That could eventually create huge opportunities for new ...

An investigation raises concerns about oversight, informed consent, and transparency after an undisclosed death in a first-in ...