A Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, made a shocking announcement to the world in 2018: He had secretly engineered the birth of the first gene-edited babies. The birth of the twins was seen as reckless ...

Baby KJ's medical team intend to ask the FDA to start a clinical trial that would be open to patients with seven different ...

Scientists are closing in on the ability to apply genome editing to a formidable new target: the human brain. In the past two years, a spate of technological advances and promising results in mice ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we ...

That’s why a team from UC San Diego in La Jolla set out with Yale University researchers to develop a new system for gene ...

From curing inherited disorders to modifying crops and even animal species, gene editing has moved from science fiction to daily reality—raising questions science can’t ignore.

Scientists have created gene-edited pigs, goats and cattle to produce sperm with traits such as disease resistance and higher meat quality in what they say is a step towards genetically enhancing ...