St. Georges Technical High School students using CRISPR in a Box. On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a sickle cell disease drug called Casgevy, co-developed by Vertex ...

Over the past 10 years, CRISPR has been transformative for research, enabling gene editing that is fast, simple and precise, experts say. The first paper showing that CRISPR could be used to edit the ...

In the world of biopharmaceutical innovation, 2024 will be remembered as CRISPR’s breakout year. In the spring, five patients with sickle cell disease began treatment with Casgevy, the first ...

Scientists had tried to treat diseases by editing genes since the 1990s, but the methods were cumbersome and didn’t pay off. Then in June 2012, the journal Science published a paper by two future ...

A novel CRISPR-based technology can spread within bacterial populations to eliminate antibiotic resistance.

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after injury. For some, however, muscle development goes awry, leading to weakness, ...

Using CRISPR, Hebrew University of Jerusalem team finds PEDS1 enzyme linked to reduced brain size; study maps 331 genes ...

The FDA late last week set for December a groundbreaking decision on whether to grant its first-ever approval for a CRISPR-Cas9 gene-edited therapy—but the milestone so far doesn’t seem to be wowing ...