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He Jiankui, the scientist who gained wide notoriety for genetically modifying two human babies in 2018, has been released from prison.

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Scientist Who Genetically Modified Human Babies Released From Prison

By Jon Christian

Researchers in China believe that we need to do more to protect children born with edited genomes — and propose building a facility to study them.

Scientists Call for Special Facility to Care for Genetically Modified Children

By Tony Ho Tran

One of the world's predominant futurists believes that we're not too far off from breaking the genetic mold.

Expert Says Children Will Soon Have More than Two Biological Parents

By Noor Al-Sibai

What if scientists gene-hacked humans, to be more affectionate, amorous and generally happy -- much like our distant cousins the bonobos?

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Could We Gene Hack Ourselves to Be Blissed Out Sex Maniacs, Like Our Distant Cousins the Bonobos?

By James Anderson

An experimental gene therapy drastically improved the eyesight — and ability to see color — of volunteers with a rare genetic condition.

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Gene Therapy Restored Vision To Patient Who Hadn’t Seen Colors in Years

By Dan Robitzski

Army researchers found a way to genetically alter disease-spreading mosquitoes to be infertile, hopefully presenting a tool to limit disease transmission.

The Army Gene-Hacked Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes To Make Them Infertile

By Dan Robitzski

A WHO advisory committee recommended against letting researchers gene-hack superhumans or other augmentative edits, urging an emphasis on medicine instead.

WHO Says Gene-Hacking Superhumans Should Be Illegal

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronauts were able to use CRISPR gene editing in space for the first time ever to study microgravity and DNA repair.

Astronauts Use CRISPR Gene Editing in Space for First Time Ever

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists found a way to significantly reduce the levels of "bad" cholesterol in a monkey's bloodstream for ten months with a single CRISPR injection

Scientists Gene-Hacked Monkeys to Fix Their Cholesterol

By Dan Robitzski

Vladimir Putin is reportedly terrified of far-fetched genetic weaponry, so security was his top priority when creating a national genetics research program.

Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Terrified of Gene-Hacking Experiments

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that CRISPR gene-editing tools cause unintended changes to DNA in a shockingly-high number of experiments.

CRISPR Has a Problem: It Mangles DNA It Wasn’t Supposed to Touch

By Dan Robitzski

Ultrasensitive COVID-19 tests based on the popular gene-editing technique CRISPR could be just around the corner, as IEEE Spectrum reports.

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CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Tests Could Work in Just 5 Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

John Ratcliffe, the U.S. national intelligence cirector, wrote in an op-ed that China experimented on military members to try and create supersoldiers.

US Official Claims China Is Testing Biologically Enhanced Supersoldiers

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new book, Chinese scientist He Jiankui had the support of several Communist Party officials while working on his gene-editing experiments.

Communist Party Secretly Supported Chinese Gene-Edited Babies, According to New Book

By Victor Tangermann

A team of London-based scientists used the popular gene-editing technique CRISPR to genetically modify human embryos — but the results were not good.

A Gene-Editing Experiment on Human Embryos Went Horribly Wrong

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just took their first stab at curing a genetic condition that causes blindness early in life through CRISPR gene-hacking.

CRISPR Scientists Hack Patient’s Genes in Bid to Cure Blindness

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just published the results of the United States first trial of CRISPR-edited cells in cancer patients — and they're very encouraging.

Human Trial Suggests CRISPR Could Be a Viable Cancer Treatment

By Kristin Houser

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has confirmed that a third gene-edited baby has been born as part of researcher He Jiankui's controversial experiment.

China Quietly Confirms Birth of Third Gene-Edited Baby

By Kristin Houser

Researchers say they've determined a new cancer treatment that uses CRISPR to gene edit cells is safe and could be effective.

First U.S. Study to Use CRISPR to Fight Cancer “Very Promising”

By Victor Tangermann

Malakkar Vohryzek is trying to find scientists willing to use CRISPR to gene-hack away his extreme sensitivity to sunlight in hopes of avoiding skin cancer.

Sick Man Begs Doctors: Please CRISPR Me

By Dan Robitzski

When scientists released gene-hacked mosquitoes into the wild population in Jacobino, Brazil, they thought it would quell the bugs. They had no such luck.

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Gene-Hacking Mosquitoes to Be Infertile Backfired Spectacularly

By Dan Robitzski

A report from Cambridge University warns of the risk of unregulated bioweapons that could target specific races by their DNA.

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Future Bioweapons Could Kill People With Specific DNA

By Dan Robitzski

California just passed the first CRISPR law, and famous biohacker Josiah Zayner thinks he's the reason for the bill's creation.

New Law Requires “Not for Humans” Label Added to DIY CRISPR Kits

By Kristin Houser

Before his controversial gene-hacking research was condemned, He Jiankui wanted to open a designer baby clinic in China or Thailand.

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That “CRISPR Baby” Scientist Wanted to Open a Designer Baby Clinic

By Dan Robitzski

Up to 18 people will be part of the first ever human study in the U.S. that uses gene editing technique CRISPR inside the body to treat blindness.

This Human Gene Editing Trial Will Use CRISPR to Treat Blindness

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers have created a CRISPR alternative called LEAPER that they say is less likely to trigger an unwanted immune response.

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Chinese Scientists Say They’ve Found a Safer Alternative to CRISPR

By Kristin Houser

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov says he's found five couples who want him to use CRISPR to ensure their offspring do not inherit their deafness.

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Five Couples Agree to CRISPR Their Babies to Avoid Deafness

By Kristin Houser

A third CRISPR baby was expected to be due in late June or early July, but the Chinese government is keeping quiet about the gene-hacking controversy.

We May Never Know When That Third CRISPR Baby Is Born

By Dan Robitzski

Using a combination of CRISPR and antiretroviral therapy, researcher eliminated the HIV virus from the genomes of mice engineered to produce human T cells.

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CRISPR Helps Scientists Cure HIV In Living Animals For First Time

By Kristin Houser

Science leaders tell STAT there's nothing they can do to stop a Russian scientist's plan to create more CRISPR babies from progressing.

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Science Leaders: We Can’t Stop Russian’s Plan for CRISPR Babies

By Kristin Houser

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov told Nature that he's planning to use CRISPR to edit more human embryos — and bring them to term — as soon as late 2019.

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Russian Biologist Pledges to Create More CRISPR-Edited Babies

By Jon Christian

An experimental study is exploiting so-called "jumping genes" that selfishly copy and paste themselves throughout the genome to improve CRISPR.

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Experimental CRISPR Study Exploits “Selfish” Genes

By Kristin Houser

A new biomedical technique lets scientists gene-hack an animal with CRISPR in vivo instead of having to remove and re-inject their cells.

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Harvard Just Gene-Hacked Stem Cells Inside a Living Organism

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has confirmed that a third gene-edited baby has been born as part of researcher He Jiankui's controversial experiment.

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New Gene-Editing Method Could Lead To “Creation of a Super-Baby”

By Kristin Houser

Fertility clinics around the world are asking He Jiankui if he'd be willing t teach them how to use CRISPR to create designer babies.

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Sketchy Clinics Are Trying to Hire Doctor Who Gene-Edited Babies

By Jon Christian

Astronauts aboard the ISS used CRISPR in space for the first time, making edits in yeast's genome to mimic radiation-caused damage.

Astronauts Use CRISPR in Space for the First Time Ever

By Kristin Houser

In order to kill antibiotic-resistant superbugs, scientists are gene-hacking viruses to target the bacteria and kill them from the inside.

Scientists Gene-Hack Viruses to Hunt and Kill Super-Strong Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

The next gene-hacked human is due to be born next month, and scientists are trying to sort out what that means for the future of humanity.

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Third Gene-Hacked Baby’s Impending Birth Has Scientists Scrambling

By Dan Robitzski

Famed biohacker Josiah Zayner has been accused of practicing medicine without a license — despite only ever experimenting on himself.

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This DIY Biohacker Is Under Investigation

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers has created CRISPR snails with shells that coil counterclockwise — a trait that is extremely rare in nature.

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Scientists Used CRISPR to Make Mirror-Image Snails

By Kristin Houser

Google Ventures has pumped money into Verve Therapeutics, a startup that wants to use CRISPR to create a "one-and-done" therapy for heart disease.

Google Backs Plan to Use CRISPR to Cure Heart Disease

By Kristin Houser

Scientists have identified two anti-CRISPR drugs, both of which prevent the technology from making edits when mixed with human cells.

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New Anti-CRISPR Drugs Could Prevent Creation of Killer Plagues

By Kristin Houser

Two geneticists are criticizing He Jiankui's use of CRISPR to edit human embryos on the grounds that it was an example of deeply flawed science.

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CRISPR Baby Experiment Meant to Prevent HIV Might Not Even Work

By Kristin Houser

Scientists may have uncovered a way to reverse the developmental disorder Angelman syndrome, but the treatment would involve gene-hacking fetal brains.

Injecting Fetal Brains With CRISPR Could Cure Genetic Conditions

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are using CRISPR technology to develop new model organisms. But actually keeping the gene-hacked critters alive comes with new challenges.

Scientists Are Having Trouble Keeping Gene-Hacked Creatures Alive

By Dan Robitzski

CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna believes the tech's most profound impact on the mainstream in the next five years will be gene-edited food.

CRISPR Co-Inventor: We’ll Be Eating Gene-Edited Food In Five Years

By Kristin Houser

Using CRISPR gene editing tools, MIT scientists turned a human cell into a tiny computer that could be used to detect diseases and churn out treatments.

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Scientists Used CRISPR to Turn a Cell Into a Biological Computer

By Dan Robitzski

After conducting an internal investigation into three professors who knew about He Jiankui's CRISPR baby research, Stanford let its faculty off the hook.

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Stanford Declines to Punish Faculty For CRISPR Babies

By Dan Robitzski

The first human CRISPR trial in the U.S. has officially begun, with a UPenn team using the technology to treat two cancer patients.

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The US Has Officially Started Using CRISPR on Humans

By Kristin Houser

Cornell scientists developed a new type of gene-hacking technology that acts like a DNA "shredder." It could be used to cure diseases like herpes.

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New CRISPR Tech Could Cure Herpes

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have used Type 1 CRISPR-Cas3, which "shreds" DNA, in human cells for the first time, giving scientists a powerful new gene-editing tool.

Researchers Use CRISPR “Shredder” on Human DNA for First Time

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, scientists used CRISPR to gene-edit lizards, uncovering techniques that could lead to new medical treatments for humans.

Scientists Gene-Hacked Lizards to Make Them Albino

By Dan Robitzski

A fascinating new story looks at the growing market for mice that have been gene-edited to mimic human disease ranging from prostate cancer to diabetes.

Health & Medicine

These $17,000 Mice Are Gene-Edited to Mimic Human Diseases

By Jon Christian

Scientists built a handheld device that uses CRISPR genetic tools and graphene transistors to screen for the mutations behind muscular dystrophy.

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Handheld CRISPR Device Diagnoses Genetic Disease in 15 Minutes

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization called for a public registry for all human gene-editing research to prevent any more debacles like that caused by He Jiankui

United Nations Calls for Registry of Human Gene-Editing Projects

By Dan Robitzski

A panel of scientists just recommended to the Japanese government that CRISPR-edited foods should be declared safe to eat.

Japan Poised to Declare CRISPR-Edited Foods Safe to Eat

By Dan Robitzski

With CRISPR gene editing, scientists hope to be able to create human-pig hybrids that will let us grow and harvest life-saving human organs.

Health & Medicine

This Guy Is Trying to Grow Organs in Pig-Human Hybrids

By Dan Robitzski

Facing stricter restrictions on their gene-editing research from the FDA, some scientists are packing up their labs and leaving the U.S.

Scientists Are Fleeing America’s Rules About Gene-Editing Animals

By Dan Robitzski

Experts Call for Temporary World Ban on Gene-Hacked Children

Experts Call for Temporary World Ban on Gene-Hacked Children

By Victor Tangermann

Documents list several Chinese government agencies as the funding sources for the CRISPR babies experiments conducted by He Jiankui.

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China May Have Helped Fund Gene-Hacked Babies Experiment

By Kristin Houser

For the first time outside of China, a clinic is using CRISPR gene editing techniques to treat someone in a clinical trial.

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Western Biotech Firm Treats First Patient With CRISPR

By Dan Robitzski

When news broke of He Jiankui's infamous gene editing research, an academic journal published his ethical guidelines. Now the article has been retracted.

Journal Retracts Ethics Article by Doctor Who Gene Edited Babies

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the specific genetic edits performed on now-living humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui could have broader-than-expected impacts.

Scientist Who Gene-Hacked Babies “Likely” Boosted Their Brainpower

By Dan Robitzski

Hung-Chun Chang, the scientist who created five monkey clones of a gene-edited animal, defends his research in an interview with New Scientist.

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Scientist Defends Controversial Cloning of Gene-Edited Monkeys

By Kristin Houser