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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 ...
This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.
Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for many diseases. By Pam Belluck and Carl Zimmer Gene-editing therapies offer ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects for millions living with complex inherited diseases, such as cystic ...
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