Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not. Why is that?

In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified ...

The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming Treatable

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

Greer, South Carolina, family hosts fundraiser for gene therapy to treat children with rare disorder

IS HOLDING A FUNDRAISER TO HELP TWO OF THEIR CHILDREN. BOTH CHILDREN HAVE A GENETIC DISORDER THAT, AMONG OTHER THINGS, CAUSES A FLOOD OF SEIZURES. AND THE ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM MAY LIE IN A GENE ...
CounterPunch

Human Gene Editing and the CRISPR Revolution

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 ...
STAT

Celebrating a new, faster path to gene-editing medicines on demand

Urnov is a professor of molecular therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a director at its Innovative Genomics Institute. In May, news broke of a biomedical first: the on-demand ...
Futurism

Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby

In today’s installment of “hey please don’t do that,” the Wall Street Journal reports that a clandestine startup named Preventive is trying to usher in the first known birth of a genetically-modified ...
New Atlas

One-off lipid-lowering gene therapy a success in world-first human trial

In a world-first trial, scientists used a one-off CRISPR gene edit to switch off a liver “fat brake” gene, slashing stubborn LDL cholesterol and triglycerides in patients whose levels refused to budge ...
WPTZ

Scientists have edited a gene that may reduce high cholesterol permanently

With a snip of a gene, doctors may one day permanently lower dangerously high cholesterol, possibly removing the need for medication, according to a new pilot study published Saturday in the New ...
WKYC3

Cleveland Clinic doctors say gene-editing therapy could revolutionize cholesterol treatment

CLEVELAND — Gene editing is the revolution in medical history and a groundbreaking Cleveland Clinic trial is demonstrating how this technology could transform the way millions of Americans manage high ...
Medical Xpress

First-in-human trial of CRISPR gene-editing therapy safely lowers cholesterol and triglycerides

In a 15-patient, Phase 1, first-in-human trial, a one-time CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing therapy safely reduced LDL cholesterol and triglycerides in people with difficult-to-treat lipid disorders, ...
New York Post

Tech billionaires back startup probing gene-edited ‘designer babies’ despite US ban: report

A Silicon Valley startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong is pursuing research that some fear could lead to the birth of a genetically engineered baby — a step that’s ...
NPR

CRISPR gene-editing works to reduce high cholesterol in a new study

A single infusion of an experimental gene-editing drug appears safe and effective for cutting cholesterol, possibly for life, according to a small early study released Saturday. The study, which ...