Hartford Courant

UConn, Connecticut Children’s conducting world’s first gene-editing trial for rare disease: ‘fixing it at its source’

Julieta Bonvin Sallago is constantly plagued by the worry that she will not wake up in the middle of the night when her alarm sounds to remind her to take 40 grams of cornstarch. Now for the first ...
Android Authority

Exclusive: This is your first look at the upcoming face editor in Google Photos

Google Photos is getting a new “Touch Up” suite of face retouching tools in the editor. We’ve managed to enable the feature for the first time in version 7.56.0.839465534 of the app. Touch Up includes ...
STAT

CRISPR is used in landmark treatment to correct genetic misspelling of a single patient

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...
MIT Technology Review

This baby boy was treated with the first personalized gene-editing drug

The one-off treatment highlights the promise of a new type of gene editing and the challenges of using it to treat extremely rare genetic diseases. Doctors say they constructed a bespoke gene-editing ...