It’s too early to determine whether the treatment is working or not. The doctors estimate that…

Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies, has been senten…

Back in 2016, researchers at Penn State used Crispr to make mushrooms that don't brown. Last spring…

Many diseases, like Huntington's Disease and Cystic Fibrosis (CF), are caused by small tweaks, or m…

Jiankui has alleged that the girls had their embryos modified in order to give them an advantage…

That is, except for the work of Dr. He Jiankui. He claims to have used CRISPR to target and knock o…

According to the South China Morning Post, the letter was published on social media on late Monday …

Researchers familiar with genetic editing technology think we'll almost certainly see efforts to en…

It certainly wasn't always this bleak for the scientist local media have begun calling "China's Fra…

The editing of human embryos raises a whole host of ethical questions that led to outrage from the …

Even if everything went according to plan, the babies could be at greater risk of future health pro…

The new study is a significant advancement from the first experiments on human embryos using CRISPR…

Others saw this work as the scary sign of a dark future: These embryos were non-viable, meaning the…

From a business point of view, one of the main differences between CRISPR and TALENs is that CRISPR…

Researchers are developing ways to use CRISPR to treat genetic conditions like sickle-cell anemia a…

There's a scarier possibility linked with CRISPR, too: Scientists - or anyone with access to a basi…

All of this is mostly hypothetical, of course, until CRISPR can be coaxed to work almost 100% perfe…

In addition to diseases with a relatively straightforward cause, gene editing could also be used, i…

Crispr's agricultural appeal is straightforward: it's cheaper and easier than traditional breeding …

The major cause of these vision problems is that the fovea (a pit-like depression in the human eye …