Gene-editing tools like CRISPR have unlocked new treatments for previously uncurable diseases. Now, researchers at the ...

The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool to spiders. Following the genetic modification, the spiders ...

Julieta Bonvin Sallago is constantly plagued by the worry that she will not wake up in the middle of the night when her alarm sounds to remind her to take 40 grams of cornstarch. Now for the first ...

The same gene-editing technology Temple used to eliminate HIV in mice is being tested for removing sickle cell disease in humans and researchers say this is a really promising technology. This is the ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

The one-off treatment highlights the promise of a new type of gene editing and the challenges of using it to treat extremely rare genetic diseases. Doctors say they constructed a bespoke gene-editing ...