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 ...

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

"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 ...

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

The Food and Drug Administration’s approval Friday of a first-of-its-kind gene-editing therapy offers hope to patients with sickle cell disease — a rare, but debilitating, genetic disorder ...

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 ...

Unlocking the potential of renewable β cells and precision gene editing, researchers aim to revolutionize diabetes care and bring us closer to a functional cure for type 1 diabetes. Review ...

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 ...