Science and medicine are incredibly amazing. Thanks to modern science and medicine, we now have lifespans far beyond our Dark ...

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 ...

A fresh wave of gene-editing therapies is surging to the fore — even as the field wrestles with the challenge of getting the first generation of expensive and complex CRISPR treatments to the people ...

In a groundbreaking development, a baby with a rare metabolic disorder has experienced real-world improvements following a procedure using CRISPR gene-editing technology. This case not only represents ...

The world's first patient to be treated with personalized gene editing therapy is finally headed home after over 300 days in the hospital. Nine-month-old KJ Muldoon recently underwent CRISPR-based ...

Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — More than a decade ago, scientists harnessed a bacterial molecular machine that identifies and cuts specific sections of DNA, revolutionizing the ability to edit genes and ...

The CRISPR family’s most versatile member has made its medical debut: a cutting-edge gene-editing technique known as prime editing has been used to treat a person for the first time. The recipient is ...

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 ...

A CRISPR gene-editing therapy has the potential to offer an effective, long-lasting treatment for cystic fibrosis after overcoming a major challenge that held back previous genetic therapies. The ...

Confectionery giant Mars Inc, has teamed up with biotechnology firm Pairwise, to develop more resilient cocoa, using CRISPR. CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a ...