Gene-editing technique to treat lung cancer is due to be tested in people in August Chinese scientists are on the verge of being first in the world to inject people with cells modified using... Read more
Technique may open doors to new treatments for many conditions, from cancer to autism The genetic code stored in DNA determines everything from the color of our eyes to our susceptibility to... Read more
The recent discovery of the first male-determining factor in mosquitoes, combined with the gene-editing capabilities of the CRISPR-Cas9 system, could be used to bias mosquito populations fro... Read more
Mass. General team develops improved version of important gene-editing tool A new engineered version of the gene-editing CRISPR-Cas9 nuclease appears to robustly abolish the unwanted, off-ta... Read more
The simplicity of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing will soon make studying the genes of any organism, from the simplest slime mold to the octopus, as easy as it now is to study the genes controlling... Read more
Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have engineered changes to the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system that... Read more