A patient death in a CRISPR trial halts gene editing studies, raising critical safety questions. What this means for the ...

The need to change regulations around gene-editing treatments was endorsed in November by the head of the US Food and Drug ...

A baby who is the first patient in the world to be successfully treated with customized CRISPR gene editing therapy is finally returning home from the hospital. Nine-month-old KJ Muldoon of Clifton ...

As CRISPR moves from lab success to real-world medicine, 2026 will test whether these revolutionary gene-editing therapies ...

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 ...

Philadelphia and New Orleans, May 15, 2025 – In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing ...

Imagine building a designer baby like a plushie toy in a mall. Genetic editing may offer parents this, soon. But is it okay? We ask experts.

Adeno-associated virus vector containing an adenine base editor provides an effective strategy to treat hereditary hearing loss caused by the R75W mutation. Moreover, this gene editing technology can ...

Gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 have many uses in the area of food and agriculture. They can combat persistent drought and disease, and improve the colour and nutritional content of food ...

Scientists have corrected gene mutations in mice causing an ultra-rare disease by editing DNA directly in the brain with a single injection, a feat with profound implications for patients with ...

Congenital hearing loss refers to impaired auditory function that occurs due to genetic causes. GJB2 is the gene responsible for approximately half of all cases of hereditary hearing loss. Connexin 26 ...