Gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 have many uses in the area of food and agriculture. They can combat persistent drought and disease, and improve the colour and nutritional content of food ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins are core components of fast-evolving therapeutic gene editing tools. Scientists have used CRISPR ...

Discover how scientists are harnessing the power of CRISPR to precisely edit DNA, revolutionizing medicine and ethics as they rewrite the very code of life. Pixabay, PublicDomainPictures CRISPR ...

CRISPR: Gene editing can address many serious ills plaguing humankind. CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a revolutionary gene-editing tool originally ...

CRSP’s main value driver is Casgevy, which was approved for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. It’s a one-time ex vivo CRISPR/Cas9 stem‐cell therapy. Unfortunately, Casgevy’s rollout has been slow ...

Editor’s note: On June 3, 2025, KJ Muldoon was discharged from the hospital and is now at home with his family. When a baby born in Philadelphia was announced as the first person to get a gene therapy ...