The need to change regulations around gene-editing treatments was endorsed in November by the head of the US Food and Drug ...

A patient death in a CRISPR trial halts gene editing studies, raising critical safety questions. What this means for the ...

As CRISPR moves from lab success to real-world medicine, 2026 will test whether these revolutionary gene-editing therapies ...

Precision gene editing can be achieved by base editing, nucleotide editing, or editing of small or large gene fragments. The specific mechanisms include various DNA repair pathways. Many precision ...

Gene therapy represents one of medicine’s most ambitious attempts to treat disease at its root cause by altering the genetic code itself. The approach works by recovering the functions of critical ...

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

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 ...

After raising $213 million in 2023—one of the year’s largest private biotech rounds—Tome Biosciences is making cuts. “Despite our clear scientific progress, investor sentiment has shifted dramatically ...

Like other developing countries, Indonesia is facing a familiar dilemma: how to feed a growing population while protecting ...

Advanced biotechnology repurposes two bacterial immune systems to correct large stretches of DNA. Human cells that have been edited with the new retron-based gene editing technology. Orange dots mark ...