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 ...

Medical anthropologist and bioethicist Julia Brown says scientists and nonscientists need to talk about whether and how we should use CRISPR to edit the fetal genome. When you purchase through links ...

Scientists in China are about to become the first to use the game-changing gene-editing technology Crispr-Cas9 on humans. CRISPR allows scientists to easily add in or delete small bits of DNA in order ...

A gene-editing technique called CRISPR has started to revolutionize medicine. But for people born with one of thousands of very rare genetic disorders, the era of CRISPR is bittersweet. That is ...