Gene editing has emerged as a powerful approach for targeting the genetic causes of disease, but getting the editing ...

A number of the world’s top scientists, policy experts and bio-ethicists met this week in Washington, DC to discuss the implications of human gene editing, and though the focus of the summit was ...

That is because scientists keen to achieve more precise control over an organism’s genetics are experimenting with a ...

A multidisciplinary committee of experts studied the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine -- including human germline ...

A research team has discovered an enhanced CRISPR gene-editing system that could enable targeted delivery inside the human body—a key step toward broader clinical use. Researchers identified a ...

In a Phase 1, first-in-human trial, a one-time infusion of an investigational CRISPR-Cas9 therapy targeting angiopoietin-like protein 3 (ANGPTL3) was safe and reduced LDL cholesterol by nearly 50% and ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued two draft guidances addressing the development of human gene therapy products that incorporate genome editing of human somatic cells and chimeric ...

NIH-funded UT team and colleagues from Metagenomi Thereapeutics discovered highly efficient enzyme could enable targeted gene editing within the human body.

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies. His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, ...