A baby born with a rare genetic liver disease has received the world's first customised experimental treatment that involved directly repairing his DNA to fix a faulty protein...
A genome editing therapy can sharply reduce cholesterol levels in some patients, as shown in early results from a clinical trial...
Following the death of Alessandro Coatti – an expert in science and policy aspects of genome editing, who was much loved by his friends and colleagues – Sandy Starr and Sophia McCully pay tribute...
A transplant of a genome-edited pig liver into a human has been described in a peer-reviewed publication for the first time...
A genome editing approach has been used to correct a disease-causing genetic variation in people, for the first time...
A 16-year-old has died from acute liver failure after receiving Elevidys, a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy...
Frequent blood donations have been correlated to favourable genetic changes that allow for healthy cell growth...
Using CRISPR to edit a single gene in mice with head and neck cancer led to half of them becoming tumour-free...
Gene silencing that causes Prader-Willi syndrome can be efficiently undone by using CRISPR-based epigenome editing, new research has revealed...
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