Giving consent for a child to receive experimental gene therapy when data is limited and risks profound is an act of great ...

While heritable human genome editing is banned in the United States, across Europe and much of the world, the technology ...

You may have seen it in the news recently: a baby in Pennsylvania with a rare genetic disorder was healed with a personalized ...

As newborn screening and rapid DNA sequencing become routine, we are poised to catch and treat inherited diseases at their ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that ...

The mammalian liver has an extraordinary regenerative capacity, capable of fully restoring its mass and function after injury ...

Genome editing technologies such as CRISPR/Cas9, base editing, and prime editing are rapidly transforming our ability to ...

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without ...

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

When cancer spreads from a primary tumor to new sites throughout the body, it undergoes changes that increase its genetic ...

In 2018, Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui engaged in gene-hacking experiments using CRISPR technology. He used it to edit the ...