The idea of self-amplifying gene editing is to get cells to pass on packages of CRISPR machinery to their neighbours, ...

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time fix ...

That gene will now likely function normally for the rest of their lives, potentially stopping further damage to their lungs and livers, Evans says. Beam has also found preliminary success with another ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A patient in a late-stage gene editing trial for a rare heart condition died from fatal liver complications after receiving an ...

Julieta Bonvin Sallago is constantly plagued by the worry that she will not wake up in the middle of the night when her alarm sounds to remind her to take 40 grams of cornstarch. Now for the first ...

U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly and Company signed an agreement worth up to $1.12 billion with Seamless Therapeutics, the ...

Urnov is a professor of molecular therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a director at its Innovative Genomics Institute. In May, news broke of a biomedical first: the on-demand ...

In a cutting-edge medical experiment, a small group of people who had high cholesterol despite taking conventional drugs to lower it saw significant reductions in two major risk factors for heart ...

Altering a single gene may help people lower dangerously high levels of cholesterol and other fats in the blood, according to new research presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the American ...