In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this ...

A new technology, mvGPT, is capable of precisely editing genes, activating gene expression, and repressing genes all at the ...

The first two days of the summit focused largely on somatic human genome editing, where the cells being altered are non-reproductive cells - as a result genetic changes cannot be passed on to future ...

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing exploits the CRISPR-Cas system ... to safely and efficiently introduce this technology into human cells of therapeutic interest. Genetic control of mosquito vector ...

The National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine launched this initiative in 2015 to inform decision-making related to recent advances in human genome-editing research. The ...

Older methods for genetic engineering required scientists to find or design new proteins to target different sites in the genome ... using gene editing to modify the human germline.

The human genome contains remnants of ancient retroviruses ... targeting their activity with drugs or gene editing tools could become a novel approach to treatment. “Our long-term goal is ...

A team of scientists claims that the risk of common conditions like heart disease could be slashed by editing people's ...

Genome editing is an exciting but still nascent field ... and the first drug therapies based on the technology are now in human testing for diseases like cancer. California-based Sangamo ...

The adenine base editor corrected the most common mutation associated with Stargardt disease in the ABCA4 gene with no off-target effects.

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends ...