Scientists in China are about to become the first to use the game-changing gene-editing technology Crispr-Cas9 on humans. CRISPR allows scientists to easily add in or delete small bits of DNA in order ...

Two studies published in Nature Medicine June 11 contribute to a small body of literature suggesting cells edited with CRISPR-Cas9 may cause cancer. Here are five things to know about the studies and ...

For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their ...

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, today announced the publication of ...

The CRISPR gene editing technique has had a dramatic influence on biomedical research, and has even been applied to a few ...

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research have developed a way to significantly cut down on “off-target” editing errors when using CRISPR Share on Facebook ...

Despite a challenging CASGEVY launch, high cash burn, and an almost 10% YTD share count growth, CRISPR’s pipeline breadth and ...

Researchers in the US have limited CRISPR experiments on the human genome, but for the first time, a US team has successfully edited a human embryo with CRISPR. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

The Influenza A virus (IAV) has been the cause of six major flu pandemics, responsible for 50 to 100 million deaths globally. In the U.S. alone, it is estimated that, despite seasonally updated ...

Like the find-and-replace feature of a word processor, CRISPR-based engineering allows scientists to quickly and efficiently edit DNA sequences with base pair precision. Lauded as the great ...