Genetic disorders occur due to alterations in the primary genetic material, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), of an organism.

Our genomes are filled with errors that were once impossible to correct. But in CRISPR, we finally found an extraordinarily ...

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

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA ...

CRISPR–Cas9-based therapies are widely investigated for their clinical applications. However, there are limitations ...

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

Scientists say they have used the gene-editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases. A ...

CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a revolutionary gene-editing tool originally discovered as a bacterial defence mechanism. Scientists have repurposed it ...

A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is growing and thriving after getting an experimental gene editing treatment made just for him. Researchers ...

Quest to beat the US saw a Chinese team turn to ancient traditions, leading to a new technique 10 times more effective than ...