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

A research team has successfully demonstrated the world's first gene-editing treatment for Leber's hereditary optic ...

Dr. Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas and Dr. Kiran Musunru crafted a bespoke treatment that has successfully corrected the genetic ...

Explore groundbreaking gene-editing therapy for kidney disease, offering hope to those with polycystic kidney disease.

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

Aurora Therapeutics' first target is the rare inherited disease phenylketonuria, also known as PKU. Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013 ...

The CRISPR gene-editing tool can be used to silence an important hepatitis B virus gene, a proof-of-concept in vitro study suggests. "It's the first time we've seen CRISPR editing done in a hepatitis ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Doctors at OHSU’s Casey Eye Institute recently replaced defective DNA with normal DNA on a live patient. It’s part of a clinical trial called Brilliance, which is designed to bring ...

IS HOLDING A FUNDRAISER TO HELP TWO OF THEIR CHILDREN. BOTH CHILDREN HAVE A GENETIC DISORDER THAT, AMONG OTHER THINGS, CAUSES A FLOOD OF SEIZURES. AND THE ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM MAY LIE IN A GENE ...

David Liu and Richard Merkin of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Columbia professor Sam Sternberg, have developed a new, targeted means of inserting entire genes into human DNA ...

Intellia Therapeutics stock surged Tuesday after the FDA aid it would allow the company to restart a gene-editing study.

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who was jailed for creating the world's first gene-edited babies ...