Precision gene editing can be achieved by base editing, nucleotide editing, or editing of small or large gene fragments. The specific mechanisms include various DNA repair pathways. Many precision ...

Now, Musunuru and colleagues are preparing a master clinical protocol to study a CRISPR therapy that's mostly the same as the one they used to treat baby KJ, except they plan to swap out the gene ...

There’s nothing new about genetic engineering. By cross-breeding plants and animals, our Stone Age ancestors realised they could boost the amount of food they produced. Modern genetics has enabled ...

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is one of the most promising tools of contemporary genetic engineering. Previously identified as a defense mechanism against ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects for millions living with complex inherited diseases, such as cystic ...

It has been seven years since Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui made an announcement that shocked the world's scientists. He had made the world's first gene-edited babies. Through rewriting DNA in twin ...

Gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 have many uses in the area of food and agriculture. They can combat persistent drought and disease, and improve the colour and nutritional content of food ...

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CRISPR Therapeutics reached a significant milestone a couple of years ago: its first product approval. The company’s stock, ...