"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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

After the gene-editing treatment, 42 of 44 beta thalassemia patients were able to discontinue the transfusions that had been keeping them alive. And all 31 sickle cell patients were free of ...

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 ...

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 ...