For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and consumer-facing startups. Gene editing, once confined to rare diseases and lab ...
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania and Rice University have refined a technology for editing individual genetic ...
Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: whether gene editing might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol.
Researchers have found that a new base-editing gene therapy can help treat a rare neurodevelopmental disorder called Snijders Blok–Campeau syndrome caused by mutations in the CHD3 gene. A specialized ...
Eli Lilly is continuing a run of dealmaking to strengthen its genetic medicine offering by penning a pact with gene editing company Seamless Therapeutics. This morning’s deal with Seamless centers on ...
A multidisciplinary committee of experts studied the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine -- including human germline ...
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 ...
Gene-editing tools like CRISPR have unlocked new treatments for previously uncurable diseases. Now, researchers at the University of British Columbia are extending those possibilities to the skin for ...
Gene editing sounds like progress until it becomes policy. This story follows a future where CRISPR and AI reshape humanity in the name of perfection. Diseases vanish, IQ rises, and society stabilizes ...
Eli Lilly & Co. struck a deal worth more than $1.1 billion with German biotech Seamless Therapeutics GmbH to develop gene therapies for hearing loss. Closely-held Seamless will design a type of enzyme ...
The idea of self-amplifying gene editing is to get cells to pass on packages of CRISPR machinery to their neighbours, boosting the effect ...
In May 2025, the world celebrated the success of KJ, an infant who was treated with the world’s first personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy. KJ was born with severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 ...