Rob Stein
Podcast: Inside global race to create first artificial eggs and sperm, enabling people of any age or sex to have genetically-related children
Get a glimpse into the global race to create the first artificial human embryos to see how the competition is ...
CRISPR gene editing tackles yet another health scourge: High cholesterol
Study shows that gene-editing technology can be used to successfully treat a genetic disorder that increases the risk of heart ...
Lab-grown human eggs: Startup aims to transform stem cells into eggs, helping infertile people have babies at any age
Conception is trying to accelerate, and eventually commercialize, a field of biomedical research known as in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) ...
‘Children of Omicron’: What public health threats lie ahead as COVID evolves?
Throughout the pandemic, the virus that causes COVID-19 has been evolving fast, blindsiding the world with one variant after another ...
Will the fast-spreading Omicron variant BA.2 sideline momentum to near-normal return?
As the omicron surge continues to decline in the U.S., infectious disease experts are keeping a close eye on an ...
CRISPR milestone: Crippling transthyretin amyloidosis disease now treatable through gene editing, paving way for addressing other genetic diseases
[65-year-old Patrick] Doherty found out he had a rare, but devastating inherited disease — known as transthyretin amyloidosis — that ...
‘It would be huge to see my granddaughter’: In an attempt to cure blindness, scientists use CRISPR to edit DNA inside patients’ bodies
Carlene Knight would love to do things that most people take for granted, such as read books, drive a car, ...
18 months later, first sickle cell patient treated with CRISPR is still pain free
[35-year-old Victoria] Gray is the first person in the United States to be successfully treated for a genetic disorder, [sickle ...
Genome sequencing for babies brings knowledge and conflicts
Genome sequencing deciphers an individual's entire genetic code. The price of doing this has been dropping quickly, raising the possibility ...