For most of his 20 years, a New Jersey man knew pain as a daily reality. Now, after a one-time CRISPR gene-editing treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Austin Louis says he is finally ...

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the ...

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing ...

Researchers at Texas A&M are pairing a widely used ingredient with advanced medical technology to develop new treatments for ...

At Web Summit Qatar, AI-powered biotech startups describe how automation, data, and gene editing are filling labor gaps in ...

With a shared purpose, we can realize the true promise of CRISPR and improve healthcare, providing hope to more patients with ...

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after ...

A small change to a powerful molecular tool — using the CRISPR-Cas13 enzyme, which can detect RNA from viruses and cells — ...

At 3 months old, Victoria Gray wouldn’t stop crying. Blood tests brought devastating news: she had sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder that blocks blood flow and oxygen delivery to the body.

In 2020, Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, CRISPR-Cas9, a method for genome editing. Often referred to as “molecular scissors,” CRISPR cuts DNA at specific locations that ...