Human Gene Editing
Gene editing: How breeders use CRISPR and TALEN to improve crops, livestock
Animal and plant breeders are trying out a set of powerful new tools which have the potential to revolutionize agricultural ...
Viewpoint: Plant scientists need to engage public on gene editing in agriculture
Easing the public into being more comfortable with genome-edited food will take more than simply stating facts according to Kevin ...
Australia set to reduce regulations of CRISPR gene editing to speed up crop research
Australia is set to reform how it regulates new genetic engineering techniques, which experts say will help to dramatically speed ...
CRISPR food coming soon: USDA decision speeds up regulatory process for gene-edited crops
In September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the green light to a version of the plant Camelina sativa, an important oilseed crop that ...
Viewpoint: We can’t afford to let ethical questions blunt the potential of CRISPR gene editing
With CRISPR, there is no doubt that there are multiple very concerning implications to the technology. Should humans actually alter ...
Rural-urban divide: Groundbreaking gene therapies could exacerbate inequality in cancer care
Two new cancer treatments have shown miraculous cures, but if you happen to live in Arkansas or Montana, or a ...
EU braces for landmark decision on whether CRISPR, other New Plant Breeding Techniques will be regulated as GMOs
UPDATE: The European Court of Justice's advocate general has said gene editing technologies should be largely exempted from EU laws ...
Report: Price for blindness gene therapy Luxturna is ‘four times too high’ at $850,000
The $850,000 list price for a new medicine that treats a genetic form of childhood blindness is about four times too high ...
CRISPR could be the answer to genetic engineering’s prayers
Since its introduction four decades ago, genetic engineering has been a source of high hopes for health, agriculture, and industry ...
CRISPR crops—exempt from GMO regulations—reaching US market in record time
CRISPR–Cas9-edited plants can be cultivated and sold free from regulation, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making increasingly clear ...
‘Supersimilarity’: Identical twins are epigenetic twins as well
The sometimes-preternatural similarity of identical twins is more profound than previously thought. Identical twins, known to science as “monozygotic”, may ...
Public embrace of CRISPR gene editing key to future of agriculture
The process of producing food, protecting the environment, and improving animal health is advancing at a seemingly breakneck pace. These ...
Can CRISPR gene-edited ‘terminator bulls’ revolutionize the beef industry?
After a year of trying, [Australian geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam's lab at the University of California succeeded in using] the ...
Can gene therapy reduce terminal cancers to minor chronic diseases that are ‘no different than high blood pressure’?
On Oct. 15 at 8 a.m., Andy Lindsay stood atop 21,247-foot Mera Peak in Nepal, a wildly improbable place for ...
US Farm Bureau opposes non-GMO labels on products without GMO alternatives
An end to the use of non-GMO labels on products that do not have GMO alternatives, NAFTA modification to improve ...
Potential CRISPR setback jolts investors, but researchers say there’s no need to panic
On [January 8], the world of science awoke to news that suddenly cast uncomfortable doubt on many of the past ...
CRISPR setback? Our immune system may attack the treatment used with the popular gene editor
A new paper points to a previously unknown hurdle for scientists racing to develop therapies using the revolutionary genome-editing tool ...
CAR-T gene therapy treatments may fall short of corrective goals, requiring surgical gene editing
For decades, researchers, some physicians, and a few patients have had visions of treatments that would go in and fix ...
Is President Trump pro-GMO?
“We are streamlining regulations that have blocked cutting-edge biotechnology, setting free our farmers to innovate, thrive, and to grow,” Trump told a ...
Can CRISPR gene editing save chocolate from extinction?
Beyond the glittery glass-and-sandstone walls of the University of California’s new biosciences building, rows of tiny green cacao seedlings in ...
Lou Gehrig’s disease might be treatable using CRISPR
University of California, Berkeley scientists have for the first time used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to disable a defective gene that ...
Could we fight HIV with new Car-T therapy?
The same kind of DNA tinkering that produced the first FDA-approved gene therapy for cancer has shown hints of suppressing and even ...
Popular Cavendish banana heading towards extinction, with GMO and gene edited varieties only viable saviors
We are in the age of the Cavendish, a banana cultivar that accounts for 99 percent of imports to the Western world. But ...
Luxturna gene therapy approved for vision loss
The first two novel gene therapies for cancer treatment passed through FDA approval earlier this year, first B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) followed quickly ...
Beyond GMOs: Gene editing’s potential to transform food and farming depends on public acceptance
[The following is part of a letter from the editor of MIT Technology Review, David Rotman.] Decades of fretting over the ...
Should patients—not the FDA— have final say on risky gene therapy treatments?
Working with mice, researchers have used gene therapy to restore sight to the blind, reprogram the body’s own T cells ...
Looking back at 2017’s genetics breakthroughs
It was a big year for the building blocks of life. Here were the most significant breakthroughs in genetics research ...
