Human Gene Editing

Last year, the FDA approved the first CAR T-cell treatments—a new class of promising therapies that train the body’s immune ...

The fear that CRISPR-based genome repair for preventing or treating genetic diseases will be derailed by “editing gone wild” has ...

Some people have a naturally occurring mutation in a gene called ANGPTL3, which plays a role in the regulation of ...

The cost of current biotech industry regulations might not be obvious to consumers, but it’s clear to researchers. “We’ve got ...

[Four women with rare ovarian cancer], strangers to one another living in different countries, asked their doctors to try new ...

Genetic researchers working with gene editing, along with farmers and growers, are excited about the potential for CRISPR technology to ...

You wouldn't know it from the excitement generated by the revolutionary genome editing method known as CRISPR, but as practiced ...

Here’s the paradox: modern gene technology is far less genetically invasive – and much better understood – than the time-worn ...

Twenty-four previously unknown mutations that raise a woman's risk of developing breast cancer have been identified by scientists. The 'ground-breaking' findings [February ...

While intricate high-tech breakthroughs are incredible, it's important to realize the value of low-cost and low-tech ingenuity ...

The fast-moving world of plant breeding — fueled by advances in CRISPR and other techniques — has tossed a wrench ...

The breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, which was co-discovered by Jennifer Doudna, a UC Berkeley professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, may soon be ...

There is an ambitious poison baiting campaign currently being planned for Gough [island] in an attempt to control rodent numbers ...

[T]he United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the landmark decision to approve two ‘drugs’ that use CAR-T cell ...

Latin America is a vital region in the global production of genetically modified (GM) crops, with Brazil and Argentina ranked ...

Esophageal cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in China. Like many other types, cancer of the esophagus ...

Australia’s gene technology regulations have not been revised since 2001- despite many game-changing advances in genetic technologies over the past 17 ...

The problem with grass is that it has tough cellular walls that make it difficult to digest. But researchers say ...

Gene editing technology – CRISPR is the best-known example – would be freed from government regulation under a proposal by ...

Researchers have discovered a single protein that can perform CRISPR-style, precise programmable cutting on both DNA and RNA. This protein ...

Bacteria and fungi created natural antibiotics eons before drug companies turned them into medicines. To counter these natural microbe killers, ...

Several features of CRISPR are behind the rise in the excitement that surrounds it. It is an incredibly easy to do, ...

If you’ve ever heard of CRISPR, it has most likely been in the context of human gene editing. … CRISPR ...

It is 8:30 East African Standard Time.  I disembark from a van filled with science journalists from Kampala, Uganda and ...

To get a peek inside the cell, scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a sort ...

For agriculture, [CRISPR] technology is a new way to instill crops and livestock with desirable traits — or to remove ...

Researchers have found a structure on the small viruses that deliver gene therapy that makes them better at crossing from ...