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To keep the gene-hacked pig heart beating during the historic operation earlier this month, surgeons used a drug cocktail that includes cocaine.

The Pig-Human Heart Transplant’s Secret Weapon? Cocaine

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, doctors have successfully transplanted a kidney from a pig to a human — and found that the organ functioned normally.

Doctors Successfully Transplant a Pig Kidney to a Human for First Time Ever

By Tony Ho Tran

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

Research suggests scientists should pay greater attention to their lab mice's well-being. Not only for the mice's sake, but because it improves the science.

Scientists Gene Edit Mice to Live 23 Percent Longer

By Tony Ho Tran

The International Society for Stem Cell Research just loosened up decades-old restrictions on how long scientists can keep lab-grown embryos alive.

New Regulations Let Scientists Keep Lab-Grown Human Embryos Alive for Longer

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious biotech startup with George Church on its board says it dodged regulatory oversight to give dementia patients an anti-aging gene therapy.

Mysterious Biotech Startup Gave Anti-Aging Gene Therapy to Dementia Patients

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

In a landmark study, researchers have used gene editing to remove the oral herpes virus (HSV-1) in mice. The technique could also work in humans.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Seemingly Cure Herpes in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA is funding research into bacteria for bomb detection that could sense explosives below the ground and then glow on its surface.

DARPA Is Engineering Glowing Bacteria for Bomb Detection

By Kristin Houser

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.

Health & Medicine

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

By Kristin Houser

Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming used tech to give her autistic son the ability to read emotions, but what happens when everyone wants to be a cyborg?

Prosthetics and Devices

“Mad Scientist” Mom Turns Autistic Son Into a “Cyborg”

By Kristin Houser

Carbon capture will be key to addressing climate change, and now, scientists have found a gene that could make plants better at capturing and storing CO2.

Renewable Energy

Scientists Gene Edit Plants to be Better at Carbon Capture

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.

Prosthetics and Devices

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.

Science & Energy

Experimental CRISPR Study Exploits “Selfish” Genes

By Kristin Houser

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.

Prosthetics and Devices

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Science & Energy

Scientists Used CRISPR to Make Mirror-Image Snails

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.

Prosthetics and Devices

CRISPR Baby Experiment Meant to Prevent HIV Might Not Even Work

By Kristin Houser

One of the scientists behind an experiment that gave monkeys human DNA, thereby making them smarter, has defended the controversial study to CNN.

Science & Energy

Chinese Scientist Defends Splicing Human Brain Gene Into Monkeys

By Kristin Houser

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

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 food service company in the Midwestern region of the United States is now serving a gene-edited food in its restaurants.

The First Gene-Edited Food Has Reached US Restaurants

By Kristin Houser

Experts Call for Temporary World Ban on Gene-Hacked Children

Experts Call for Temporary World Ban on Gene-Hacked Children

By Victor Tangermann

European scientists say that a bone marrow transplant has permanently cured a patient's infection with HIV, which is the virus that causes AIDS.

Health & Medicine

Doctors Say They’ve Permanently Cured a Patient’s HIV

By Jon Christian

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

Science & Energy

Scientist Defends Controversial Cloning of Gene-Edited Monkeys

By Kristin Houser

Researchers in Seattle, Washington developed a new technique to artificially create antibodies by editing the DNA of so-called B cells.

Health & Medicine

CRISPR Could Make You Immune to the Flu

By Victor Tangermann

Napster Co-Founder Chides Elon Musk: Worry About Gene Editing, Not AI

Napster Co-Founder Chides Elon Musk: Worry About Gene Editing, Not AI

By Jon Christian

A team from UC Berkeley has discovered that CasX could be a better CRISPR protein for human gene-editing than the commonly researched Cas9.

Prosthetics and Devices

Tiny New CRISPR Protein Could Make Human Gene-Hacking Less Risky

By Kristin Houser

A do-it-yourself biohacker named Bryan Bishop says that he's working on technology to gene-hack designer babies. He says he has a customer lined up.

Prosthetics and Devices

Rogue Bitcoin-Funded Biohacker Wants to Gene-Hack Designer Babies

By Jon Christian

A U.S. biologist is gene-editing human embryos, but unlike Chinese research He Jiankui, this scientist isn't trying to create any designer babies.

Prosthetics and Devices

Another Scientist Is Gene-Editing Human Embryos — but More Ethically

By Kristin Houser

The majority of U.S. adults would support gene editing embryos to protect babies against disease, according to a new poll.

Poll: Two Thirds of Americans Support Human Gene Editing to Cure Disease

By Jon Christian

Prosthetics and Devices

Chinese Scientists Reportedly Lost Track of Gene-Edited Patients

By Kristin Houser

New medical research shows how to reprogram a mature blood cell into a new kind of stem cell that cell can grow into a neuron and multiply indefinitely.

RX and Medicine

Neural Stem Cells Grown From Blood Could Revolutionize Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Mutated Animals Show Why Gene Editing Isn’t Ready for Human Trials

Mutated Animals Show Why Gene Editing Isn’t Ready for Human Trials

By Kristin Houser

He Jiankui, the researcher behind the controversial gene-editing of a pair of twin babies in China, is currently nowhere to be found.

Prosthetics and Devices

The Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies Is Missing

By Kristin Houser

A new gene-editing clinical trial, still shrouded in secrecy and surrounded by questions, allegedly resulted in living people with boosted HIV resistance.

Prosthetics and Devices

Chinese Scientists Claim to Have Gene-Edited Human Babies For the First Time

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Used CRISPR to Domesticate This Delicate Fruit

Scientists Used CRISPR to Domesticate This Delicate Fruit

By Dan Robitzski

Creating Genetically Modified Babies Is “Morally Permissible,” Says Ethics Committee

Creating Genetically Modified Babies Is “Morally Permissible,” Says Ethics Committee

By Kristin Houser

Synthetic Biological Weapons May Be Coming. Here’s How To Fight Them.

Synthetic Biological Weapons May Be Coming. Here’s How To Fight Them.

By Dan Robitzski

CRISPR Doesn’t Cause Unintended Mutations in Monkeys, Study Finds

Prosthetics and Devices

CRISPR Doesn’t Cause Unintended Mutations in Monkeys, Study Finds

By Kristin Houser

UC Berkeley Finally Scores a Win With Two CRISPR Patents

Prosthetics and Devices

UC Berkeley Finally Scores a Win With Two CRISPR Patents

By Kristin Houser

The FDA Puts the Brakes on A Major CRISPR Trial in Humans

Health & Medicine

The FDA Puts the Brakes on A Major CRISPR Trial in Humans

By Kristin Houser

Gene-Editing Technology Is About To Affect Your Shopping Cart

Gene-Editing Technology Is About To Affect Your Shopping Cart

By Dan Robitzski

The First “Cell-Free” CRISPR Tech Is Here To Personalize Cancer Treatment

The First “Cell-Free” CRISPR Tech Is Here To Personalize Cancer Treatment

By Kristin Houser

The Next Revolution of Sports Cheating: Rewriting Athletes’ Genetic Codes

Prosthetics and Devices

The Next Revolution of Sports Cheating: Rewriting Athletes’ Genetic Codes

By Kristin Houser

USDA Announces Super-Chill Stance on Gene-Edited Crops

USDA Announces Super-Chill Stance on Gene-Edited Crops

By Kristin Houser

A Journal Retracted A Controversial Paper About CRISPR. The Damage Might Already Be Done.

Prosthetics and Devices

A Journal Retracted A Controversial Paper About CRISPR. The Damage Might Already Be Done.

By Kristin Houser

Changing Regulations Mean Genetically Modified Meat Could Soon Be on Your Plate

Science & Energy

Changing Regulations Mean Genetically Modified Meat Could Soon Be on Your Plate

By Claudia Geib

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Science & Energy

Gene Editing Is Now Precise Enough to Modify a Single Letter of DNA

By Chelsea Gohd

Susceptible to Heart Disease? Gene Editing Could Change That

Surprise! It’s a Bad Idea to Hack Your Body, Says Prominent Biohacker

Prosthetics and Devices

Surprise! It’s a Bad Idea to Hack Your Body, Says Prominent Biohacker

By Alexandra Ossola

Masters of Our DNA: Designer Bodies Are Not Science Fiction

Masters of Our DNA: Designer Bodies Are Not Science Fiction

By Jolene Creighton

A CRISPR Future: Five Ways Gene Editing Will Transform Our World

A CRISPR Future: Five Ways Gene Editing Will Transform Our World

By Victor Tangermann

human CRISPR trial

The First American CRISPR Trial in Humans Will Target Cancer

Scientists Grow First-Ever Working Human Muscle From Stem Cells

Health & Medicine

Scientists Grow First-Ever Working Human Muscle From Stem Cells

By Chelsea Gohd

Research into the genome continually uncovers things we don't know.

Science & Energy

New Genome Research in Plants Could Help Fight Human Disease

By Chelsea Gohd

The First CRISPR Clinical Trial Could Begin in 2018

Health & Medicine

The First CRISPR Clinical Trial Could Begin in 2018

By Chelsea Gohd

DARPA Wants to Use Genetic Modification to Turn Plants into Spy Tech

DARPA Wants to Use Genetic Modification to Turn Plants into Spy Tech

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Science & Energy

We Just Used Genetic Engineering to Create Completely Yellow, Three-Eyed, Wingless Mosquitoes

Watch CRISPR Edit DNA in Real Time

Science & Energy

Watch CRISPR Edit DNA in Real Time

By Chelsea Gohd

Scientists Developed a Way to Precisely Edit Genes in the Human Brain

Science & Energy

Scientists Developed a Way to Precisely Edit Genes in the Human Brain

Scientists Just Used Gene Editing to Remove a Fatal Blood Disorder From Human Embryos

Scientists Just Used Gene Editing to Remove a Fatal Blood Disorder From Human Embryos

By Jolene Creighton

How Transgenic Species Could Help Fight the Effects of Climate Change

How Transgenic Species Could Help Fight the Effects of Climate Change

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Health & Medicine

Experts Cast Doubt on Groundbreaking CRISPR Embryo Editing Research