Rice University researchers have developed a CRISPR-based gene activation strategy that boosts mitochondrial production in damaged heart cells, improving cardiac function after heart attacks in both ...

Cas9, Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases (TALENs), and Zinc-Finger nucleases (ZFNs) have demonstrated great utility, primarily for genetic knock-out applications, none have been adopted ...

A 19-year-old Canadian man becomes the first human cured through prime gene editing after doctors corrected a rare genetic ...

Gene editing, a set of techniques used to alter sections of an organism's DNA, is helping scientists cure diseases previously ...

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

Gene editing refers to the precise alteration of an organism's DNA sequence at a specific locus. In cancer treatment, this technology is leveraged to modify the genetic makeup of cancer cells, either ...

Prime Medicine's application will test an FDA that has promised to speed new gene-editing treatments but has recently spurned ...

University of Missouri scientists build rewritable DNA hard drive using nanopore sensor for storing and editing digital data.

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol.

Partnership marks a critical step toward clinical development of an AAV gene therapy using a base editing approach designed to target the genetic cause of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome ...

Dr. Stuart Turvey said there have been other treatments for chronic granulomatous disease, involving hematopoietic stem cell ...

Ty Sperle is the first person known to have been cured by a treatment known as "prime editing," in a breakthrough by ...