Brian Armstrong, the billionaire CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, says he’s ready to fund a US startup focused on gene-editing human embryos. If he goes forward, it would be the first ...

Victoria Gray is the first person in the world to receive CRISPR,  a gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease created by ...

A Falmouth teen, Jayden Wilsey, is the first to receive gene therapy to treat sickle cell at Boston Children's Hospital.

Epigenetic changes do not alter the genetic code itself, but by changing how DNA is organized within the cell, epigenetic ...

Doudna's insights on the future of CRISPR in medicine and agriculture, including the barriers that must be overcome to pave ...

Kashmir University Scientists Pioneer India's First CRISPR-Edited Sheep - SKUAST-Kashmir scientists developed Indias first ...

Princeton University awarded honorary degrees to Omar M. Yaghi, Daniel Chee Tsui, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Joshua ...

Readers respond: Sexual assault survivor funding at risk May. 22, 2025, 6:00 a.m. The current administration has cut this ...

KJ Muldoon came into the world with a genetic time bomb ticking inside him.

The only gene-editing therapy currently on the market is a CRISPR–Cas9-based treatment for two blood disorders, sickle-cell disease and β-thalassaemia. This costs more than US$2 million per ...

In January the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence approved a one-off CRISPR therapy to treat severe sickle cell disease in people aged 12 years or over.2 However, such treatment is ...