378 Results From "CRISPR"

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a type of CRISPR gene-edited pig for human consumption.
Gene Editing

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked CRISPR Pigs for Human Consumption

CPS-1 is a rare genetic disorder, and doctors are using CRISPR to heal it in one baby.
RX and Medicine

In a World First, CRISPR Drug Tailored for One Baby Shows Life-Saving Promise

Researchers used gene-editing technique CRISPR to modify the DNA sequences of house spiders, causing them to produce red fluorescent silk.
Science & Energy

Scientists Gene-Hack Spider to Produce Bright-Red Silk

The scientist who went to prison for gene hacking a pair of twins in China is now decrying the ethics that punished him.
Genetics

Scientist Who Gene-Hacked Human Babies Says Ethics Are “Holding Back” Scientific Progress

A team of resaerchers at a Berkeley-based startup called Profulent claim to have used generative AI technologies to edit human DNA.
Gene Editing

Startup Uses AI to Edit Human DNA

Scientists say they've been able to literally cut out the "bad" bits of DNA from infected cells to eliminate HIV using CRISPR gene editing.
Gene Editing

Scientists Manage to Cut HIV Out of Individual Cells

CRISPR, like many other powerful and complex tools, has… a bit of a PR problem. Is that holding it back from broader integration into health therapies?
Developments

This CRISPR Researcher Says Gene Editing Isn’t Playing God

Scientists have developed a new more precise gene editing technique that uses AI to predict how cells repair their DNA.
Gene Editing

Scientists Are Using AI for Improved Gene Hacking

Bovine beauty pageants help determine the most desirable cows in the world — and these "supercows" are changing meat farming for good.
Science & Energy

Brazilian “Supercows” Reportedly Close to Achieving World Domination

Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Lung Into a Human for the First Time
Developments

Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Lung Into a Human for the First Time

Scientists have gene-hacked mice to produce their own Ozempic-like drugs, paving a path for humans to do so themselves one day.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Gene Hack Mice So Their Livers Produce Their Own Ozempic-Like Drug

A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.
Gene Editing

Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby

A mouse with two dads — or a bi-paternal mouse, in the scientific parlance — has made it to adulthood. Several mice, in fact.
Gene Editing

A Mouse With Two Dads Has Reached Adulthood

A long-running human trial has shown that CRISPR gene editing could prove to be a highly effective way of treating two rare blood disorders.
Gene Editing

Patients Treated With CRISPR Still “Cured” Three Years Later

Elon Musk's grand plan for Mars colonization includes, apparently, a long-term dream to create new species on the Red Planet. 
Mars

Elon Musk Planning to Bioengineer New Species to Live on Mars

Gene-edited pigs, which are immune to a porcine disease and meant for meat consumption, are nearing federal approval.
Science & Energy

Company Seeking Approval to Sell Meat From Gene-Hacked Pigs

The New Yorker documented the life-changing ambitions of He Jiankui, the scientist who gene edited human babies, leading to infamy and prison.
Gene Editing

Scientist Who Gene Edited Human Babies Had Plan to Transform Humankind

Roughly a year and a half after being released from prison, Chinese scientist He Jiankui has resumed research on human embryo gene editing.
Gene Editing

Scientist Who Gene-Edited Human Babies Back in the Lab Again After Prison Release

Surgeons at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a gene-hacked pig into a living man.
Developments

Patient Walking Around Hospital After Transplant of Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney

One of the discoverers of CRISPR gene-editing, a groundbreaking new method to engineer genes, believes we could use the technique to tackle climate change.
Climate Change

CRISPR Creator Says We Could Engineer Species to Fight Climate Change