Single-Dose of Gene Therapy Hailed as 'Magic Wand' for Patients with Deadly Condition, Transforming Lives
The first human trial reported dramatic improvements in health and quality of life, completely removing painful and potentially fatal swelling
The first human trial reported dramatic improvements in health and quality of life, completely removing painful and potentially fatal swelling
MIT hailed it as China's first domestic gene therapy breakthrough, as well as "the most dramatic restoration of a lost sense yet achieved."
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.
An experimental trial of seven patients with LCA, regained some of their vision after being legally-blind, through CRISPR gene-editing.
Researchers at the University of Michigan describe a breakthrough using CRISPR-Cas9 to target fat cells in the genetic DNA.
We can now use CRISPR gene editing on ticks to prevent Lyme Disease in humans, researchers at Penn State have discovered.
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, […]
'Three blind mice' can see again after scientists restored vision in breakthrough research that could reverse human retinitis pigmentosa.
The advantages are huge if such a drug could be proven to work well—a lack of hospital and laboratory work would save a patient thousands
CRISPR edits the genetic code of the body's own stem cells to treat conditions that arise from defective or mutated genes.
A new CRISPR gene editing technology expands access to nearly every gene to potentially target and treat a broader range of diseases.
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