The rapid spread of animal diseases and pathogen evolution have long posed significant threats to the healthy development of ...
CRISPR–Cas9-based therapies are widely investigated for their clinical applications. However, there are limitations ...
For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...
ON MARCH 15th 2024, a dark brown, gene-edited pig was driven from its home in the Midwest to a medical facility on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts. It had never before been outside the clean ...
The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR is promising to revolutionize medicine. Some researchers are trying to help make it available for people with very rare genetic disorders. A gene-editing ...
A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...