In May, a historic moment in science and medicine was captured in a single photo that circulated across news outlets ...

Stanford researchers and their collaborators have revealed a new device that could change the way scientists conduct ...

Gene editing is revolutionizing the understanding of health and disease, providing researchers with vast opportunities to advance the development of novel treatment approaches. Traditionally, ...

CRISPR-Cas9 editing leads to widespread loss of the targeted chromosome in human T cells, but scientists recently discovered a way to prevent such loss. To investigate how Cas9 gene editing affected T ...

CRISPR Therapeutics has developed SyNTase editing, a proprietary, next-generation, site-specific gene correction platform.

A Swiss biotechnology company said it has used the gene-editing technology CRISPR to treat a patient with a dangerous blood disease called beta thalassemia, marking the technology’s first trial run by ...

Scientists have discovered a way to make gene editing safer and more precise — and it's an advance that could help bolster ...

Despite the copious demands of his administrative positions as the White House chief science advisor (and until last year, the director of the NIH), Francis Collins, MD, PhD, has continued to run a ...

The CRISPR/Cas9 system, typically abbreviated to just CRISPR, has been used to edit genomes with increasing frequency over the past few years. The name refers to specialized stretches of DNA that we ...

Surviving the harsh winter months is a major challenge for many insects. One widely adopted survival strategy, especially in temperate regions, is the production of overwintering eggs with hard, ...