Human Gene Editing/CRISPR
Getting out of the gene-editing mess created by Chinese scientist He Jiankui
There have always been rogues willing to carve their own paths no matter what the cost to others. But how ...
Diagnostics, drug discovery, disease: How CRISPR is solving medicine’s biggest problems
This is the public face of genome editing or, as it is sometimes called, gene editing: a technology capable of ...
‘Family duty’ could explain why so many Chinese couples signed up for controversial ‘CRISPR baby’ experiment
Young adults in China feel a powerful cultural obligation to marry and have kids, but that life plan suddenly looks ...
9 GLP 2018 human genetics highlights: Sen Warren’s Native American ancestry; transgender genetics; Freddie Mercury’s teeth and his voice
The top GLP stories in a very busy year for human genetics ...
Controversial Chinese gene-editing scientist downplays reports suggesting he could face death penalty
The Chinese scientist who shocked the world in November by announcing that twin girls had been born from embryos that he had created ...
Fears of gene editing in the US could be stoked by Russian disinformation attacks
[There’s a] risk to gene drive research that has flown under the radar. This threat combines legitimate concerns about the ...
Could controversial gene-editing scientist He Jiankui face the death penalty in China?
The Chinese scientist who created the world’s first genetically edited babies is living under armed guard and could face the ...
7 ways biotechnology could change our lives in 2019
[Editor's note: Key researchers and scientists were asked for their thoughts on 2019.] Gene editing, food innovation, and synthetic biology ...
CRISPR ‘super-soldiers?’ Why we need international gene-editing rules
Within this century, human beings will be capable of changing their genes to modify traits like intelligence, or even instincts ...
Chinese scientists aren’t keeping tabs on experimental gene therapy patients, report says
Gene therapies are very much at their preliminary stages of development, so it would make sense to keep tabs on ...
How AIDS transformed genetic engineering
For two decades, [Matt] Sharp had been living with HIV. He’d watched the height of the aids crisis claim dozens of his ...
‘Human gene-editing scandal’: Should rogue scientist’s work be published?
How do you handle the data of a scientist who violates all the norms of his field? … On the one hand, you ...
Why can’t we stop rogue scientists from engaging in dubious research?
[C]an the public control science that leaves us with permanent and unenviable consequences? Recent news suggests that the answer is ...
CRISPR represents potential for huge change. But will the public trust it?
The charged language around the recent gene-editing controversy is driving an inaccurate assessment of risks ...
Will we see illegal CRISPR IVF clinics in the US? Experts weigh in
The possibility of “CRISPR babies” became real [November 25], when a Chinese scientist stunned the world by announcing he’d used the gene-editing ...
‘Less expected’: China condemns research yielding gene-edited babies
On Nov. 26, U.S.-trained, Shenzhen-based He Jiankui announced that he’d altered the genes of a human embryo to create the ...
CRISPR treatment for rare genetic eye disorder gains FDA study approval
Days after a Chinese researcher incensed the world of science with claims of editing the genomes of twin girls, an American ...
Genome surgeons target genetic disease at the source
[Delaney Van Riper] was born with a rare genetic disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth, or CMT, which is slowly eroding her nerve cells’ ...
Baboons given heart transplants from genetically engineered pigs—humans could be next
In four adjacent enclosures transplantation researcher Bruno Reichart kept four happy baboons. … Most importantly, he says, they were healthy ...
What the CRISPR babies can teach us about the failings of ethical oversight
This isn't just about process, about ethical boxes left unchecked ...
Controversial Chinese scientist behind CRISPR babies is missing
The current whereabouts of He Jiankui—the scientist who claims to have engineered the world’s first genetically modified human babies—is unknown ...
Genetically modified humans? Here’s why they already exist
It felt as if humanity had crossed an important line: In China, a scientist named He Jiankui announced on Monday ...
‘Wild and frightening possibilities’: How AI and genomics could affect reproduction
[Jamie] Metzl is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and author of the upcoming book Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and ...
Viewpoint: Why we need a 3-year moratorium on gene-edited babies
Chinese researcher He [Jiankui] dropped the bomb with his claim that he produced twin CRISPR’d babies. He cited a 2017 National Academies ...
Viewpoint: Putting CRISPR babies in context—learning from the past instead of panicking in the present
The brouhaha against the gene-edited twins echoes recent history of alternative reproductive technologies ...
Viewpoint: What FDA’s Scott Gottlieb is missing in the gene-edited baby debate
I am a huge fan of FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. ... But in his comments on the news that gene ...
Improving human sperm with gene editing? Harvard researcher moves forward as scientists debate CRISPR babies
In the wild uproar around an experiment in China that created twin girls whose genes were altered to protect them ...
Science summit calls gene-edited babies ‘deeply disturbing’ but rejects moratorium on similar research
A Chinese scientist's claims that he created the world's first gene-edited babies is a "deeply disturbing" and "irresponsible" violation of ...
