A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.

Cutting-edge gene editing technology could eradicate Down syndrome, according to Japanese scientists. Down syndrome, which causes a range of developmental differences and affects 1 in 700 newborns in ...

The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR is promising to revolutionize medicine. Some researchers are trying to help make it available for people with very rare genetic disorders. A gene-editing ...

Ultimately, the collaboration is focused on speeding up progress toward a safer and more resilient food system. As Corbion's ...

In 2024, regulators approved Casgevy, the first CRISPR-based therapy to treat sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia — a one-time treatment that edits a patient’s own stem cells to produce healthy ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — More than a decade ago, scientists harnessed a bacterial molecular machine that identifies and cuts specific sections of DNA, revolutionizing the ability to edit genes and ...

I didn’t notice earlier this year when, for the second time, a pig kidney was transplanted into a guy in New Hampshire who was getting too sick to wait for a spare human kidney to come his way. It ...