A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based ...

By reactivating a long-lost gene, researchers were able to lower uric acid levels and stop damaging fat accumulation in human ...

A historic pandemic continues to rage, and it isn’t getting the attention it deserves given the virus’s toll. The outbreak in this case isn’t COVID-19, but a vicious iteration of the avian flu. But ...

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true ...

Earlier this year, researchers at CHOP and Penn created a first-of-its-kind drug customized to a unique genetic mutation to save an infant named Baby KJ from dying of a rare liver disorder. KJ Muldoon ...

CRISPR-modified animals are even being marketed for sale as pets. “It's allowed us to consider a whole raft of projects we couldn't before,” says Bruce Whitelaw, an animal biotechnologist at the ...

CRISPR-modified poplar trees and wild poplar trees grow in a greenhouse at North Carolina State University. (Chenmin Yang, NC State) (CN) — Researchers are using the revolutionary gene-editing ...

Researchers have developed a novel version of a key CRISPR gene-editing protein that shows efficient editing activity and is small enough to be packaged within a non-pathogenic virus that can deliver ...

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers are improving non-invasive treatment options for degenerative disc disease, an ailment that impacts 3 million adults yearly in the U.S., according to the ...