For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...

For decades, high cholesterol has meant a lifetime of daily pills, repeat blood tests and constant reminders that the biggest ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.” ...

Gene-editing tools like CRISPR have unlocked new treatments for previously uncurable diseases. Now, researchers at the ...

A new CRISPR-based one-off procedure that lowers "bad" cholesterol has been approved to enter Phase I human trial. If ...

Picture CRISPR-Cas9, a gene editing technology, as a GPS-guided scalpel: gRNA directs the Cas9 enzyme, a protein that cuts ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

A year ago, Dr. Matthew Porteus, a genetics researcher at Stanford, received an out-of-the-blue email from a young Chinese scientist, asking to meet. A few weeks later, the scientist, He Jiankui, ...

Around 2018–19, there was not a bigger science and ethical story than the debate over heritable human genome editing (HHGE) and the scandal over the “CRISPR babies.” The scientist, He Jiankui, who ...

QUÉBEC CITY, Jan. /CNW/ — duBreton is responding to Health Canada’s recent decision to approve the use of gene-edited meat in the Canadian food system without mandatory labeling requirements.

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 ...

A multidisciplinary committee of experts studied the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine -- including human germline ...