Astronauts and commercial space travelers are subject to damaging radiation and microgravity, along with other potential ...

‘Cutting edge’ is, for once, a truly apt description when it comes to gene editing – both because the field is pushing medicine into areas we might never have dreamed possible, and because ...

With Gene Editing, Mice With a Form of Inherited Deafness Can Hear Again July 12, 2024 — Researchers have used gene editing to restore hearing in adult mice with a type of inherited hearing loss.

But opponents say gene editing is still not proven to be safe and that they remain concerned about the implications for animal welfare. Now a law permitting gene-edited food to be sold in the UK ...

A gene editing technique may prevent the slaughter of animals not needed by the livestock industry. Ethics experts publish a report as the government considers whether to allow gene-edited farm ...

Beam Therapeutics' pipeline shows promise but remains in early stages with no clinical trial data yet available. Find out why ...

There’s nothing new about genetic engineering. By cross-breeding plants and animals, our Stone Age ancestors realised they ...

CRISPRkit aims to make "gene editing accessible for everyone, everywhere." Aimed at K-12 students and people of any age curious about the how the revolutionary CRISPR gene-editing works ...

Prioritizing Set of High Value Programs in Core Areas of Focus; Modularity of Prime Editing Platform Expected to Allow Prime Medicine to ...

View full profile. Learn about our editorial policies. In their 2019 paper, Liu’s team used prime editing to alter the gene mutations causing sickle cell disease and Tay-Sachs disease. Liu explained ...

Could next-generation gene editing mean a cure for cystic fibrosis (CF)? There's been a lot of advancement on the disease in the last decade, but there are still those living with the disease who ...

“By engineering the small but powerful protein TnpB, we were able to design a variant that shows a 4.4-fold increase in efficiency of modifying DNA – making it more effective as a gene editing ...