A CRISPR Therapy Just Cured A Disease From Inside The Body For The First Time. The Gene-Editing Era Officially Started Monday ...

For years, researchers have been trying to figure out how to treat inherited blood disorders like sickle cell disease without causing new health problems in the process. Now, a team of scientists from ...

What’s the breakthrough?: A CRISPR-dCas9 base editing system can permanently switch off essential microbial genes without DNA cleavage, preventing survival outside controlled environments. Why it ...

Ming, Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) at The Hong Kong University of Science and ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. Celena Lozano’s son Benny, who turned 5 in November, loves trains, trucks — anything that goes. He also has a rare disease, PURA syndrome. Earlier this ...

New CRISPR paradigm: HKUST scientists created a DNA-guided Cas12a system that targets RNA, reversing the traditional RNA-guided DNA model. Practical advantages: The DNA guides are more stable, cheaper ...

Tulane University researchers have developed a CRISPR-based test that diagnoses Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) — a life-threatening fungal infection primarily affecting children and ...

(Nanowerk News) In a major step forward for cancer care, researchers at ChristianaCare’s Gene Editing Institute have shown that disabling the NRF2 gene with CRISPR technology can reverse chemotherapy ...

A child known publicly as Baby KJ was celebrated onstage at the twelfth Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Santa Monica last ...

Among the challenges in treating disease, including cancer, is wiping out malignancies, infection, contaminants or other ...

CRISPR Therapeutics' first approval should go on to become massively successful. This approval was a major breakthrough in the area of gene editing. CRISPR Therapeutics has some qualities that could ...