Despite high hopes and high investment in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, scientists still have a lot to learn about how it works in humans. In the latest example, University of California, Berkeley, ...

Explore CRISPR technology explained, gene editing science, DNA modification, and genetic engineering ethics—discover how ...

CRISPR-based technology is advancing rapidly, driving international competition. Its promise to transform medicine is colliding with political and social realities, even as applications expand.

In a first for adults in Singapore, scientists are conducting gene editing trials on heart patients to correct defects at their genetic source.

Although CRISPR/Cas9 is powerful and widely used, one of its fundamental limitations is the requirement for a nearby PAM (protospacer adjacent motif) sequence. This restricts where edits can be made, ...

Designer babies — these words likely conjure up scenes from Hollywood movies like Gattaca or maybe even science fiction books where humans are cloned or modified in the womb to create the ultimate ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., one of Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.’s scientific co-founders, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the ...

A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects ...

Scientists studying the effects of the potentially game-changing gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 have found it can cause unexpected genetic damage that could lead to dangerous changes in some cells. The ...