A patient death in a CRISPR trial halts gene editing studies, raising critical safety questions. What this means for the ...

Scientists and physicians can better assess precision genome editing technology using a new method made public today by St.

Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome is a childhood disorder caused by mutations in one of the major architectural proteins of the cell nucleus. In HGPS patients the cell nucleus has dramatically ...

CRISPR-Cas9 is widely used to edit the genome by studying genes of interest and modifying disease-associated genes. However, this process is associated with side effects including unwanted mutations ...

Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute say they developed a technique to predict the exact mutations CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing can introduce to a cell. The team edited 40,000 different pieces of ...

Chinese researchers have found a way to nearly triple the efficiency of a tool designed to edit genes in human embryos. Their method should be ready for clinical use soon, with gene-edited babies ...

Oct. 29 (UPI) --Researchers testing technology to edit DNA during human development -- with the hope of preventing disease -- have found that the process often eliminates an entire section of genetic ...

An important theoretical foundation for stem cell-based gene therapy has been published by scientists. The combination of stem cells and targeted genome editing technology provides a powerful tool to ...

A new gene editing method to correct a mutation that leads to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been successful in a mouse model of the condition. Researchers used a technique called ...

A new gene editing technique called prime editing, tested in human and mouse cells, rewrites DNA by only cutting a single strand to add, remove, or replace base pairs. The method may allow researchers ...