Researchers from Wageningen University & Research and Van Andel Institute used a variant of CRISPR, a gene-editing tool, to ...
Dr. Swee Lay Thein and Dr. Stuart Orkin won the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their work toward a ...
The gene editing treatment targets the relatively common 1717-1G>A splicing mutation, which does not respond to many current CF therapies.
Charles Gersbach and his colleagues are pursuing promising CRISPR technologies focused on controlling gene activity rather ...
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 ...
For the millions of people living with genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy and inherited liver disorders, one of the ...
Gene editing has moved from theory to bedside with a speed that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. A new wave of CRISPR advances is not only correcting single mutations in the lab but ...
DENVER, Jan. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CRISPR gene-editing, and related genome engineering technologies, are reshaping industries from medicine to materials, with breakthroughs in treating genetic ...
Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases. Last February ...
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 ...
Chicken eggs are already used to harvest helpful proteins called antibodies to protect humans from viruses such as influenza.