The real revolution came in 2012, when researchers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier harnessed CRISPR, a natural bacterial defense system. In bacteria, CRISPR cuts out invading viruses’ DNA ...
The CRISPR gene editing technique has had a dramatic influence on biomedical research, and has even been applied to a few ...
M OST STORIES about gene-edited children begin with He Jiankui, a rogue Chinese scientist who, in 2018, announced that he had ...
A single multipurpose gene-editing tool can correct several genetic conditions by restoring proteins that have been truncated ...
On Thursday, Editas Medicine Inc. (NASDAQ:EDIT) announced a strategic realignment to focus on in vivo gene editing. In vivo refers to studies or experiments conducted on living organisms or cells ...
Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for ...
A team of researchers at the Broad Institute, led by gene-editing pioneer David Liu, has developed a new genome-editing ...
No doubt the New Zealand Gene Technology Bill, currently awaiting its Second Reading, which will liberalise decisions about gene technology experiments and place them in the hands of a single ...
Adherence to cholesterol-lowering treatments remains one of the biggest challenges in preventing heart disease. The one-time infusion of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing therapy has the potential to eliminate ...
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, Armstrong has now officially entered the designer-baby business by funding heritable ...
It’s been nearly three years since controversial Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison for gene-hacking human babies — and now, he appears to be hitting back at the rules that led ...