Two papers published in The New England Journal of Medicine highlight the potential of gene editing for treatment of sickle ...

Gene editing has emerged as a powerful approach for targeting the genetic causes of disease, but getting the editing ...

Intellia Therapeutics, a leading biotechnology company, announced that its CRISPR-based treatment for a rare swelling ...

Gene therapy and gene editing are marvels of modern biotechnology, providing revolutionary techniques for fixing genetic abnormalities. Gene therapy introduces functional genetic material to treat ...

Editor’s note: On June 3, 2025, KJ Muldoon was discharged from the hospital and is now at home with his family. When a baby born in Philadelphia was announced as the first person to get a gene therapy ...

Most gene-editing tools cut DNA wherever they’re pointed, with no way to tell a tumor cell from a healthy one. A study ...

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 ...

Advanced biotechnology repurposes two bacterial immune systems to correct large stretches of DNA. Human cells that have been edited with the new retron-based gene editing technology. Orange dots mark ...

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol.It's very early-stage research, tried in only a few ...