Gene editing is being sold on the promise of healthier babies — but what are the ethical concerns?

The race to advance gene editing tech continues, spurred on by starry-eyed Silicon Valley investors, entrepreneurs and even ...

UC San Diego researchers find new system for gene editing that may be safer than CRISPR

That’s why a team from UC San Diego in La Jolla set out with Yale University researchers to develop a new system for gene ...

How gene editing is changing the meat in our diet, from fast-growing fish to heat-tolerant cows

Disease-resistant pigs, faster-growing fish and heat-tolerant cows are among a new class of animals that are being genetically engineered for the dining table. Similar meat products could soon be sold ...
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AI-powered CRISPR technology turbocharges gene therapy development

Stanford researchers and their collaborators have revealed a new device that could change the way scientists conduct ...

"Simultaneous Gene 'On and Off' Control" KAIST Proposes New Paradigm for the Bioindustry

A gene-editing tool that can turn genes on and off like a light switch has been developed. Turning a gene on means activating ...

Novel gene editing technology enables selective destruction of cancer cell DNA using fewer targets

Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST and the Center for Genomic Integrity at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have announced an advance in cancer gene therapy. Their ...

The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic

At the WIRED Health summit, biochemist David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a new gene-editing technique that ...
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Next generation gene editors engineered to significantly reduce error rate

The error rate of a promising gene-editing tool can be reduced up to 60-fold by introducing mutations that change where the ...

Gene editing, traditional crossbreeding produce disease-resistant cacao plants

In a development that could help protect one of the world's most beloved agricultural commodities, a research team at Penn ...
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At meeting on guardrails for gene editing of human embryos, some call for a dead end

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...
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Baby healed in world's first gene-editing therapy; Indian-origin doctor plays key role

A nine-month-old baby boy, who was born with a rare and life-threatening genetic disease, was successfully treated with an customised gene-editing treatment made just for him. Indian-origin ...

Science history: A tragic gene therapy death that stalled the field for a decade — Sept. 17, 1999

Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver disease. The death sparked an investigation ...