Unlike earlier methods using CRISPR alone, this method works without introducing chromosomal abnormalities into the embryo or ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long ...

A preprint describing genetically edited human embryos is raising concerns among scientists that the U.S. is becoming more ...

A team in the US has reported promising results after using an improved form of CRISPR to gene-edit human embryos, but a ...

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 ...

In 2020, Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology that allows ...

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 ...

Scientists used CRISPR to disable the NRF2 gene, restoring chemotherapy sensitivity in lung cancer cells and slowing tumor growth. The technique worked even when only a fraction of tumor cells were ...

The future of medicine is already here. Intellia Therapeutics, a leading biotechnology company, announced that its CRISPR-based treatment for a rare swelling condition has succeeded in a Phase 3 trial ...

Aurora Therapeutics' first target is the rare inherited disease phenylketonuria, also known as PKU. Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013 ...