This is the first step towards the use of gene editing therapies to treat a wide variety of rare genetic disorders for which ...

Researchers in China have carried out the first transplant of a pig liver, genetically modified to prevent immune rejection, into a brain-dead human patient. The transplant functioned for 10 days ...

In a world first, scientists used CRISPR to fix a baby's unique genetic mutation. The report offers hope for personalized ...

A United States (US) infant with a rare condition has become history's first patient to be treated with a personalised ...

The goal is to reuse key parts of the treatment and simply swap in a custom set of instructions for each patient's specific ...

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other ...

KJ Muldoon became the first patient to undergo personalized CRISPR treatment, a therapy that found the one uniquely mutated gene out of 20,000 in his little body, and fixed it.

At 2 months old, Mattie Beacham was diagnosed with biliary atresia, a rare disease of the liver and bile ducts ...

Shares of TransMedics Group ( TMDX 6.54%) recently bounded higher in response to a first-quarter earnings report that was a ...

After Andy Sandness was left with devastating facial injuries, he became the recipient of one of the most complex face ...

In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy by a team at Children's Hospital of ...