Diabetes Might Be Cured Using Healthy Stool Samples, Say Researchers at UCSD
Live bacterial therapeutics (LBTs) injected into mice stopped the progression of diabetes—and could end the need for human insulin injections.
Live bacterial therapeutics (LBTs) injected into mice stopped the progression of diabetes—and could end the need for human insulin injections.
A new study has unveiled a likely future cure for HIV which uses molecular scissors to ‘cut out' HIV DNA from infected cells.
Researchers used CRISPR to identify a genetic cause of the autoimmune disease lupus, which can lead to new treatments.
Genetic cardiomyopathies is a group of diseases that are genetically passed on to offspring and often strike young people down in their 20s.
Scientists have figured out how to modify the gene-editing tool CRISPR to control how genes are switched on or off, without changing DNA.
A Tel Aviv University team shows their CRISPR genome editing system can improve survival rates by 80% in mice with metastatic ovarian cancer.
Researchers at the University of Michigan describe a breakthrough using CRISPR-Cas9 to target fat cells in the genetic DNA.
Researchers at UT Austin have redesigned a CRISPR Gene-Editing toolto be 4,0000 times less likely to target the wrong strand of DNA.
Vertex hope to market what would be the first FDA-approved CRISPR treatment in the U.S. by the end of the year,
In the latest CRISPR success story, a 13-year-old girl whose leukemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells. She received a dose of immune cells that were genetically edited to attack the leukemia, a method that's been used with other cancers. A form of cancer in the bone marrow tissue, […]
A new CRISPR gene editing technology expands access to nearly every gene to potentially target and treat a broader range of diseases.
A trailblazing team of researchers has eliminated all traces of HIV from living mice – and they will soon begin clinical trials on humans.
The first ever sickle cell patient to be treated with genetically-modified cells has experienced a significant improvement against the disease.
Using CRISPR to alter the genetics of astrocytes in mice, researchers hope they've discovered how to regenerate neurons in patients with Parkinsons disease.
Victoria Gray, the first patient to be treated for Sickle Cell Disease with the gene editing technique CRISPR is thriving a year after her treatment.
It's PAC-MAN to the rescue for COVID-19, since Stanford scientists have developed a gene-targeting, antiviral agent nicknamed PAC-MAN with Berkeley Lab.
CRISPR gene therapy shows promise against blood diseases–in particular, transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease.
In a nationwide first, researchers have effectively corrected the genetic code that causes a heart disease in human embryos.
Australian researchers have used CRISPR to develop a groundbreaking new antidote for the world's most venomous creature: the box jellyfish.
In the largest study of its kind, scientists have identified some of the weakest points of cancer cells - and it could spell the end of chemo side effects.
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