As CRISPR moves from lab success to real-world medicine, 2026 will test whether these revolutionary gene-editing therapies ...

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA ...

Scientists have discovered a new CRISPR mechanism with precise activity, expanding the potential applications of the existing ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

An infant with a rare metabolic disease became the world’s first patient to be treated with a personalized CRISPR gene-editing treatment in a landmark study between Penn Medicine and the Children’s ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

Scientists are testing CRISPR gene editing as a potential HIV cure after successfully removing the virus from infected cells ...

Gene editing has moved from theory to bedside with a speed that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. A new wave of CRISPR advances is not only correcting single mutations in the lab but ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening for ...

The study used large-scale CRISPR gene-editing technology to systematically determine which genes are required as embryonic ...

For decades, scientists have studied how to control DNA—the molecule that holds the instructions for all life. One of the most powerful tools to emerge from that effort was CRISPR, a system adapted ...