This new technology could one day significantly expand the market for gene-editing biotechs.

However, current enzymes still produce off-target effects, so researchers have been exploring ways to extend the capabilities ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what's possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by genetic mutations. But so far, attempts to use the technology to address ...

For the millions of people living with genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy and inherited liver disorders, one of the most frustrating bottlenecks in gene therapy has been deceptively simple: the ...

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) refer to the small fragments of viral DNA that are stored by the bacteria as a part of their defense mechanism. CRISPR–Cas9 is a ...

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 ...

Gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 have many uses in the area of food and agriculture. They can combat persistent drought and disease, and improve the colour and nutritional content of food ...

Emerging gene-editing platforms are demonstrating that disease-causing mutations, aberrant gene expression, and even large-scale DNA insertions can be corrected without relying on error-prone DNA ...

The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not without risk. When this type of "genetic surgery" is performed on DNA, for ...

It has also aggressively invested in gene editing, including its 2025 acquisition of cardiovascular disease gene-editing ...

New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not ...