To the research team working to save him, KJ Muldoon was first known only as Patient Eta. But within months, KJ’s name — and ...

This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

Gene-edited crops are no safer than GMOs, and fast-tracking regulatory approval could trigger a costly backlash.

The new CRISPR method, called the ActCRISPR-TB, increases amplification and detection of genetic signals from TB bacteria DNA and offers a rapid, streamlined approach that can return a diagnosis in ...

Doctors used personal gene therapy to treat an infant with a deadly genetic disease in a medical first. KJ Muldoon was born in August 2024, and DNA sequencing revealed he had inherited two gene ...

A new generation of CRISPR technology developed at UNSW Sydney offers a safer path to treating genetic diseases like Sickle Cell, while also proving beyond doubt that chemical tags on DNA - often ...

For years, researchers have been trying to figure out how to treat inherited blood disorders like sickle cell disease without causing new health problems in the process. Now, a team of scientists from ...

Teens at a Georgia high school may have come up with a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. They took their idea to ...

Against this backdrop, a team led by Professor Zhang Han and Associate Professor Chen Zhi from Shenzhen University in China , has demonstrated an innovative approach that combines DNA origami, CRISPR ...