The CRISPR-led gene-editing revolution is set to begin next month in its first ever trial in humans. The small phase 1 trial, to take place in China, will be investigating the method’s safety ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...

CRISPR is a technology that allows scientists to "selectively modify the DNA of living organisms," according to the National Human Genome Research Institute. The image is a fabrication ...

Doctors harvest stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and then send them off to a lab, where CRISPR is used to turn up the production of another, functional version of haemoglobin. This version is ...

Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic ...

CRISPR is like an editor that can rewrite DNA letter by letter or gene by gene, to remove harmful mutations or add protective ...

Learn how CASGEVY, the first NHS-approved CRISPR gene therapy, treats sickle cell disease through a revolutionary genetic ...

Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel or exa-cel) became the first drug based on the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to be approved towards the end of last year, when it was cleared by the FDA for ...

CRISPR has made it cheap and easy. How CRISPR therapy could cure everything from cancer to infertility The imminent approval of the world's first CRISPR treatment for sickle cell disease is just ...

It marks the first successful treatment of its kind outside the United States, according to the institution. Casgevy, developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is the world's ...