Scientists working on gene editing need to talk about the responsible use of such techniques, geneticist Jennifer Doudna said ina lecture on Monday. Doudna, one of the key players behind the discovery ...

After teasing a new regulatory process for personalized genetic medicines at the end of last year, the FDA today unveiled draft guidance for an approval pathway that could see custom CRISPR therapies, ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant ...

We are in the golden age of science and technology, advancements in gene editing and ASO therapies are allowing doctors to deliver targeted, and in some cases one-time, interventions for conditions ...

Cancer is caused by faulty genes, but what also shapes a cancer cell's behavior is how a gene's instructions are trimmed and ...

Revolutions in gene therapy are rapidly changing the landscape of modern medicine. Revolutions in gene therapy are rapidly changing the landscape of modern medicine, forcing society and science alike ...

Prime Medicine's application will test an FDA that has promised to speed new gene-editing treatments but has recently spurned ...

In a global first, UConn Health, in collaboration with Connecticut Children's, has dosed a patient in a groundbreaking clinical trial testing gene editing technology to treat glycogen storage disease ...

Gene editing has made huge leaps in recent years, such as treating the congenital blood disorders sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia, which can require lifelong blood transfusions. But scientists ...

Today there are injected medicines that block proteins produced by the PCSK9 and ANGPTL3 genes in the liver, thus helping the body clear away cholesterol. The new research uses CRISPR, the Nobel Prize ...

Gene editing of plants enabled the production of more nutritionally rich rice and fortified tomatoes. But these innovations have often come about only through long, painstaking work. This process ...