Gene editing has moved from theory to bedside with a speed that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. A new wave of ...

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

Owen T. Tuck, a graduate student in Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California. Owen T. Tuck, a graduate student in Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks ...

At the end of 2023, the FDA approved Casgevy for sickle cell disease, its first approval for a therapeutic that used the genome editing tool clustered regulatory interspaced palindromic repeats ...

A new genome editing technology known as CRISPR has the potential to revolutionize the way scientists study diseases and genetics. “I think it’s a really useful tool for science, in fact it’s sort of ...

Vertex recently said the product may deliver more than $100 million in revenue in the 2025 full year. But it's important to ...

Following on from the discovery of programmable DNA-cutting enzymes known as Fanzors, scientists have found that a diverse range of species possess these genetic 'scissors', which presents a massive ...

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