“My whole adult life up to that point I was pretty much a cancer patient." The treatment she received uses “CRISPR gene editing” to create an individualized treatment for Stage 4 colorectal ...

The gene therapy landscape has seen a paradigm shift in the last few years, mainly due to the advent of CRISPR gene editing technology. The technology holds unprecedented promise for the treatment of ...

The only gene-editing therapy currently on the market is a CRISPR–Cas9-based treatment for two blood disorders, sickle-cell ...

The gene editor -- called evoCAST -- goes a long way toward solving a problem that has confounded the development of gene therapies from the field's beginnings: How to add long stretches of DNA to ...

A pivotal medical milestone has been reached. For the first time ever, researchers have used a personalized CRISPR-based gene ...

Recent biotechnological innovations like genome - editing in crop breeding are seen as major achievements to address the challenges of food security and also to reduce the burden of agriculture to ...

A gene editing drug custom-made for a critically ill baby showed that, for some ultra-rare diseases, it’s possible to design ...

Improvements in our understanding of the human genome, technological tools like artificial intelligence, and global investments in scientific research have all contributed to this exciting new era of ...

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The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool to spiders. Following the genetic modification, the spiders ...

At the upcoming annual meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, scientists from Huidagene Therapeutics will share an update on the development of their CRISPR-high-fidelity(hf ...