Gene editing donor organs during machine perfusion could rescue more than 28,000 organs discarded annually in the US, per a ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Base editing in human embryos reveals that NANOG is the one gene required to form every body tissue. Cambridge’s landmark ...

This GEN Live show will bring together a panel of leading experts to break down the latest advances, innovations, and challenges shaping genome editing.

The use of genome editing in early embryos has pulled back the curtain on the role of one of the key genes that orchestrates ...

In late 2021, Amber Salzman interviewed for a job that she had no intention of taking. A relatively new start-up company, called Epicrispr Biotechnologies, was looking for a chief executive, and it ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome editing technique ...

Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

The US Endangered Species Act compels the government to identify species at risk of extinction and devise plans to restore ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

Genome editing lets scientists rewrite DNA, the instruction manual inside every living cell, with a precision that was ...

Fertility specialists, biotech companies and ethicists are divided over whether progress in early gene editing would wipe out diseases or trigger a rush toward enhancement. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn ...