CRISPR

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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

By Sharon Adarlo

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have reduced the level of bad cholesterol in human subjects after injecting them with an experimental gene editing treatment.
Health & Medicine

Patient Dies After Being Gene-Edited to Have Lower Cholesterol

By Sharon Adarlo

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a story about an upcoming gene editing conference, one of the summit's organizers admitted something kind of odd about military use of gene editing.
Health & Medicine

Scientist Suggests Tweaks for Genetically Altered Supersoldiers

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers have injected a gene-editing serum into a live patient's liver with the goal of lowering their cholesterol.
Gene Editing

Doctors Gene-Edit Patient’s Liver to Make Less Cholesterol

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say that a little gene hacking turned adorable hamsters into vicious monstrosities. Let that be a lesson to you!
Science & Energy

Scientists Gene Hack Hamsters Into Hyper-Aggressive Monsters

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Victor Tangermann