FRANKFURT, Germany — Updated results released Friday highlighted the lasting benefits of a CRISPR-based medicine for blood disorders developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, as the ...

Revolutions in gene therapy are rapidly changing the landscape of modern medicine, forcing society and science alike to ...

CRISPR, the gene-editing technology which won its creators the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is most well-known for its ...

Data presented at ASH suggest that the CRISPR therapy could provide a one-time functional cure in children as young as 5 ...

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in agricultural biotechnology by using CRISPR/Cas9 to edit the potato genome, resulting in plants with increased resistance to both biotic and abiotic ...

(RTTNews) - Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX), Thursday reported compelling long-term data for its CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited therapy, PrCASGEVY, at the EHA Congress. In sickle cell disease trials, 95.6 ...

Researchers have identified a mechanism by which an oncogene commonly activated in cancer patients affects the growth rate of cells. In the future, the findings can help in developing new treatments ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In the world of biopharmaceutical innovation, 2024 will be remembered as CRISPR’s breakout ...

Researchers have made an important step forward toward a long-desired goal: using the gene-editing technology CRISPR to treat cancer. In a study published in Nature, scientists recruited 16 people who ...

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins are core components of fast-evolving therapeutic gene editing tools. Scientists have used CRISPR ...

UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable fertilizer. By boosting a natural compound in the plant, the wheat triggers ...