FDA draft guidance could speed approval of individualized genome editing and RNA therapies for rare diseases. Read more here.

A version of this Priestley Medal address will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2026 meeting ...

Durham, North Carolina and Oxford, United Kingdom, Feb. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pairwise, a global innovator in agriculture, today ...

Researchers develop a single genome-editing strategy to treat multiple disorders caused by nonsense mutations, promising efficient and cost-effective therapies.

A team of researchers has achieved a major breakthrough in genome editing technology. They've developed a cutting-edge method that combines the power of designer-recombinases with programmable ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...

The rise of gene-edited embryos has raised a myriad of ethical questions. It involves altering DNA to prevent disease or even to choose specific traits using a method known as CRISPR. In 2018, Chinese ...

He Jiankui, a young Chinese scientist known to his American colleagues as JK, dreamed of remaking humanity by exploiting the emergent technology of gene editing. He had academic polish, and an ...

But at a global genome-editing summit, exciting trial results were tempered by safety and ethical concerns. This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To ...