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

Scientists from Kolkata-based Bose Institute have created GlowCas9 -- a CRISPR protein that lights up while performing gene editing -- to help boost treatment of genetic diseases ...

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

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

Programmable CRISPR tools are turning stem cell biology into something closer to software engineering, shrinking ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

A groundbreaking new treatment using genome-edited immune cells, developed by scientists at UCL (University College London) ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Medical anthropologist and bioethicist Julia Brown says scientists and nonscientists need to talk about whether and how we should use CRISPR to edit the fetal genome. When you purchase through links ...