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

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins are core components of fast-evolving therapeutic gene editing tools. Scientists have used CRISPR ...

How does the CRISPR Down Syndrome breakthrough work to remove the extra chromosome 21? We are closer than ever to a world where a genetic condition affecting one in every 700 babies could be addressed ...

St. Georges Technical High School students using CRISPR in a Box. On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a sickle cell disease drug called Casgevy, co-developed by Vertex ...

Genome editing with various CRISPR-Cas molecule complexes has progressed rapidly in recent years. Hundreds of labs around the world are now working to put these tools to clinical use and are ...

Science and medicine are incredibly amazing. Thanks to modern science and medicine, we now have lifespans far beyond our Dark Age predecessors, living until ripe old age and enjoying the fruits of our ...

In an extraordinary 6,000-word guest editorial in the October 2024 issue of The CRISPR Journal (a sister journal of GEN, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.), Fyodor Urnov, PhD, laid out the urgent ...