India has the chance to lead in CRISPR technology by driving ethical gene editing innovations in healthcare, agriculture, and environmental...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease, including the first treatment in the US ...

The guidelines proposed by the committee were prompted by the case of He Jiankui, a scientist in China who stunned the world in November 20...

In the CRISPR system, a specific region in the bacterial genome collects small DNA snippets of the invading phage between repeat-spacer arr...

A Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, claimed last year that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies using Crispr, to make them resi...

The scientists at HKUST discovered the microbial species, including Acidobacteria — a natural medicinal phylum containing the CRISPR gene e...

This is unethical because informed consent is not possible from a future generation.

New York, Dec 8 (IANS) In what could remove a major hurdle to using gene editing technologies to treat human diseases, scientists have crea...

New York, May 30 (IANS) The CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome, warns a new...

New York, Dec 30 (IANS) In a study that has the potential to improve the safety and accuracy of CRISPR applications, researchers have disco...

New York, Dec 20 (IANS) Using a gene-editing technology, scientists have identified three human genes essential for HIV infection, a findin...

CRISPR, short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, was named "2015 Breakthrough of the Year" by the US journal Sc...

Retinitis pigmentosa is a class of diseases in which patients experience night blindness in the early stages, along with atrophy and pigmen...

Researchers from Duke University in US used CRISPR to treat an adult mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

A revolutionary discovery in the world of genetics revealed a tool that allows scientists to edit DNA in a way that's easy and cheap.

This technology ultimately has applications in gene therapies for genetic disorders such as sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis.

Harvard researchers used a gene-editing technique to create an effective method for blocking HIV from invading & destroying patients' immun...