A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

Gene editing has moved from theory to bedside with a speed that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. A new wave of ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

For years, researchers have been trying to figure out how to treat inherited blood disorders like sickle cell disease without causing new health problems in the process. Now, a team of scientists from ...

CRISPR is a gene-editing tool that acts like “molecular scissors,” but using it on cancer is complex. The technology’s biggest impact so far is in research labs, helping scientists understand how ...

Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring ...

Urnov is a professor of molecular therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a director at its Innovative Genomics Institute. In May, news broke of a biomedical first: the on-demand ...

Cutting-edge gene editing technology could eradicate Down syndrome, according to Japanese scientists. Down syndrome, which causes a range of developmental differences and affects 1 in 700 newborns in ...

Gene editing figures to be part of the future of medicine, but a popular system for it has some room for improvement, researchers say. That’s why a team from UC San Diego in La Jolla set out with Yale ...

Gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 have many uses in the area of food and agriculture. They can combat persistent drought and disease, and improve the colour and nutritional content of food ...

CRISPR became big in 2025, bringing advances for serious Indian health risks, which will continue in the coming year ...