Tools like CRISPR-Cas9 are creating new opportunities for innovation in St. Louis, as well as risks around IP protection and regulation.

WASHINGTON — Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol. It's very early stage research, tried in ...

Prime Medicine's application will test an FDA that has promised to speed new gene-editing treatments but has recently spurned some.

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant ...

Scientists working on gene editing need to talk about the responsible use of such techniques, geneticist Jennifer Doudna said ina lecture on Monday. Doudna, one of the key players behind the discovery ...

Revolutions in gene therapy are rapidly changing the landscape of modern medicine. Revolutions in gene therapy are rapidly changing the landscape of modern medicine, forcing society and science alike ...

For decades, high cholesterol has meant a lifetime of daily pills, repeat blood tests and constant reminders that the biggest killer on earth is lurking in the bloodstream. Now a wave of gene editing ...

In a global first, UConn Health, in collaboration with Connecticut Children's, has dosed a patient in a groundbreaking clinical trial testing gene editing technology to treat glycogen storage disease ...

Gene editing of plants enabled the production of more nutritionally rich rice and fortified tomatoes. But these innovations have often come about only through long, painstaking work. This process ...

Nature gave the world the dire wolf 2.6 million years ago, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away—some ...