geneediting

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the country's first gene-editing treatment, Casgevy, for use in patients with sickle cell disease.The approval comes about a decade…

A new study from the University of Minnesota is the first to demonstrate the ability for gene therapy to repair neural connections for those with the rare genetic brain disorder known as…

In 2008, a fruit fly known as the spotted-wing drosophila made its way from Southeast Asia to the continental US, likely hitching a ride on fruit shipments. First detected in California…

By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer The lone volunteer in a gene-editing study targeting a rare form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy likely died…

Gene-editing therapy aimed at two targets -- HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, and CCR5, the co-receptor that helps the virus get into cells -- can effectively eliminate HIV infection, new…

Engineers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have designed a new type of nanoparticle that can be administered to the lungs, where it can deliver messenger RNA…

An artificial intelligence program may enable the first simple production of customizable proteins called zinc fingers to treat diseases by turning genes on and off. The researchers at NYU…

As they grow, solid tumors surround themselves with a thick, hard-to-penetrate wall of molecular defenses. Getting drugs past that barricade is notoriously difficult. Now, scientists at UT…

CRISPR has ushered in the era of genomic medicine. A line of powerful tools has been developed from the popular CRISPR-Cas9 to cure genetic diseases. However, there is a last-mile problem --…

In the latest twist in a long-running legal dispute over a popular gene-editing tool, U.S. patent authorities ruled that the Broad Institute deserves the credit for inventing a way to use…