For the millions of people living with genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy and inherited liver disorders, one of the ...

CRISPR Cas9 gene therapy explained with DNA scissors, hereditary diseases treatment, and designer babies ethical dilemmas ...

A compact Cas12f nuclease shows high editing efficiency in human cells, with structural insights enabling an engineered variant potentially suited for future AAV‑compatible delivery.

Scientists have taken an important step toward a gene therapy that could one day turn off the extra genetic material that ...

Now, following up on that success, a large Chinese collaboration has followed up with a description of an improved gene ...

Scientists are laying the groundwork for treating one of the most common genetic conditions in humans. Research out today ...

The ACC has published a scientific statement regarding the use of gene editing therapy for cardiovascular disease.

The last time The Lancet Microbe featured an Editorial on CRISPR was in November 2020, to mark that year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna for ...

Scientists at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), Milan, have found that gene editing using CRISPR-Cas9 in combination with AAV6 vectors can trigger inflammatory and ...

Most gene-editing tools are blind to context. Point them at a DNA sequence and they cut, whether that sequence sits inside a ...

The CRISPR-Cas gene-editing system has long been the focus of research as a promising tool in genome editing. However, the ...