An international group of gene editing leaders has put out a call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome editing (HHGE), ...

The custom-built gene editing treatment for 6-month-old KJ Muldoon could not have come at a more welcome or jarring time for ...

"It is the first CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy to be approved in the U.S." "These approvals represent an important medical advance with the use of innovative cell-based gene therapies to ...

The personalized CRISPR treatment could be the future of gene therapy, but hurdles remain before everyone has access.

While the medical world is melting down from the absolute apocalypse that is RFK Jr., it's good to celebrate that (at least ...

David Liu and Richard Merkin of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Columbia professor Sam Sternberg, have ...

The decisions are being hailed as milestones for treating sickle cell and for the rapidly advancing field of gene editing, which is stirring excitement for treatment of many diseases. "Sickle cell ...

Plus, a lot of the cells affected by genetic diseases are mature and have stopped dividing. So, we either need to repeat the gene editing treatments indefinitely or find a way to target the stem ...

Current gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease are complex, time-consuming, and are sometimes linked to serious side effects like infertility or blood cancer. To address these challenges, Johns ...

Unlike so-called somatic gene editing, where one type of cell or tissue (the one where a mutation is wreaking the most havoc and causing disease) is targeted for modification, editing an embryo ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a landmark gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease, a painful condition that affects approximately 100,000 people in the United ...