It has been described as a revolutionary technology — and won its inventors a Nobel Prize.CRISPR gene editing, often simply dubbed CRISPR, is a tool that allows scientists to precisely target and ...

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

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Earlier gatherings focused on gaining public acceptance for what scientists want to do with CRISPR. This meeting flipped that ...

In biology, enzymes have evolved over millions of years to drive chemical reactions. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...

Clinical trials refer to medical research that involves testing new treatments on people. The four phases help to ensure the ...

In a stunning medical breakthrough that effectively brings designer babies out of the realm of science fiction, a ...

Research teams funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord ...

Researchers have developed a technology that delivers RNA to damaged neurons and stimulates regrowth - paving the way for ...

A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is growing and thriving after getting an experimental gene-editing treatment made just for him. Researchers described the case in a new study, say ...

This is the first gene editor to use a CRISPR-associated transposase to make targeted edits at therapeutically useful levels ...

In a scientific achievement that reads like science fiction made real, Colossal Biosciences has accomplished what many ...