The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR is promising to revolutionize medicine. Some researchers are trying to help make it available for people with very rare genetic disorders. A gene-editing ...

CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP +3.91%) received great news last week. Its gene-editing therapy, which it has been developing with Vertex Pharmaceuticals, obtained approval from the Food and Drug ...

For some diseases, gene therapies offer the potential for lifelong disease amelioration and even cure. And these immensely important novel biotechnologies may be on the cusp of a boom. That is in part ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...

Rare genetic diseases are challenging for patients and their families—made all the more overwhelming because symptoms tend to appear soon after birth. To date, there haven’t been many reliable ...

CRISPR technology has revolutionized biology, largely because of its simplicity compared to previous gene editing techniques. However, it still takes weeks to learn, design, perform, and analyze ...

Gene editing techniques may eventually allow trisomy to be treated at the cellular level, according to an in vitro proof-of-concept study. Down syndrome is caused by the presence of a third copy of ...

Medical anthropologist and bioethicist Julia Brown says scientists and nonscientists need to talk about whether and how we should use CRISPR to edit the fetal genome. When you purchase through links ...

May 12 (Reuters) - The University of California and the University of Vienna on Monday convinced a U.S. appeals court to revive their bid for patent rights to groundbreaking CRISPR gene-editing ...

CRISPR Therapeutics' leading candidate recently received regulatory approval. This gene-editing therapy stands to improve the biotech's financial results. CRISPR's rich pipeline should yield more ...