For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...

Scientists have achieved a genetic feat once thought impossible: removing an entire extra human chromosome using gene-editing ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.” ...

A new CRISPR-based one-off procedure that lowers "bad" cholesterol has been approved to enter Phase I human trial. If ...

Picture CRISPR-Cas9, a gene editing technology, as a GPS-guided scalpel: gRNA directs the Cas9 enzyme, a protein that cuts ...

Dec. 8 (UPI) --The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new sickle cell disease treatment using the CRISPR genome editing technology. It's the first approved human gene editing therapy.

Gene-editing tools like CRISPR have unlocked new treatments for previously uncurable diseases. Now, researchers at the ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Scientists and ethicists at a global meeting in Washington said it would be "irresponsible" to use gene editing technology in human embryos for therapeutic purposes, such ...

A multidisciplinary committee of experts studied the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine -- including human germline ...