Baby KJ was the first to receive a bespoke gene-editing treatment. Personalized drugs for others could be approved within the ...

Gene editing has the potential to cure thousands of people suffering from devastating rare diseases. But the Nobel Prize-winning technology faces a basic math problem: It’s not profitable to spend ...

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

Gene therapy treatments for rare diseases are being developed, but getting them out of the lab has proved challenging.

Revolutions in gene therapy are rapidly changing the landscape of modern medicine. Revolutions in gene therapy are rapidly changing the landscape of modern medicine, forcing society and science alike ...

News broke yesterday that researchers in Philadelphia appear to have successfully treated a 6-month-old baby boy, called KJ, with a personalized CRISPR gene-editing therapy. The treatment corrects an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Designer babies may sound like science fiction, but they’re becoming increasingly possible as gene editing technology to treat and prevent genetic diseases evolves. How scientists should use it is a ...

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to ...