Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.” ...
For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...
This will be a conference call of the international commission developing a framework for considering technical, scientific, medical, regulatory, and ethical requirements for germline genome editing ( ...
An international group of scientists is calling for a moratorium on making inheritable changes to the human genome, specifically the use of the Crisper-Cas9 technique on DNA. The group met in ...
The Case Western Reserve University Science and Human Rights Coalition will host Andrea Waksmunski, a PhD candidate in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, for a talk titled “Ethics of ...
DENVER, Jan. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CRISPR gene-editing, and related genome engineering technologies, are reshaping industries from medicine to materials, with breakthroughs in treating genetic ...
New Haven, Conn. — The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field. While existing ...
Picture CRISPR-Cas9, a gene editing technology, as a GPS-guided scalpel: gRNA directs the Cas9 enzyme, a protein that cuts ...
Waking up this morning to news of the much-deserved Nobel Prize win for Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing" confirms the importance of ...
Understanding human gene function in living organisms has long been hampered by fundamental differences between species.