The EU has eased restrictions on crops developed using novel genetic techniques. While supporters say the technology could ...

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 handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing experiments. The technology, CRISPR-GPT, acts as a gene-editing "copilot" ...

The EU has relaxed its rules on gene-editing. Now, only some gene-edited crops are regulated by the stringent GMO directive.

Gene editing donor organs during machine perfusion could rescue more than 28,000 organs discarded annually in the US, per 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 ...

Scientists say they have used the gene-editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases. A ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

In a rapidly changing climate landscape, the plants we rely on for food, textiles and more face a multitude of challenges, ...