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Scientists Discover Potential HIV Cure that Eliminates Disease from Cells Using CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing
A new study has unveiled a likely future cure for HIV which uses molecular scissors to ‘cut out’ HIV DNA from infected cells.
To cut...
CRISPR Gene Editing Reverses ‘Permanent’ Vision Loss in Mice–Offering Hope for Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients
The ‘three blind mice’ of song could actually be seeing again after scientists restored vision in breakthrough research that could reverse the condition in...
We Can Now Use CRISPR Gene Editing on Ticks – to Fight Lyme Disease in Humans
Reducing tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, may now be possible thanks to two new gene editing methods developed by researchers.
The methods could allow...
Biologists have Found a Way to Regenerate Neurons in Mice with Parkinson’s Using CRISPR Gene Editing
Using CRISPR to alter the genetics of astrocytes in mice, researchers hope they've discovered how to regenerate neurons in patients with Parkinsons disease.
First Sickle Cell Patient Treated with CRISPR Gene Editing is Now Thriving One Year Later, And Able to Care For Her Kids
Victoria Gray, the first patient to be treated for Sickle Cell Disease with the gene editing technique CRISPR is thriving a year after her treatment.
Gene Editing Technique Could Be the Cure For Anemia and Sickle Cell Disease
This promising treatment of blood mutations in mice showed a total elimination of disease or abnormality – with more testing, it could be used on humans.
100 Times Improvement in Sight Seen After Gene Therapy Trial for Disease That Deteriorates Vision in Childhood
Patients with an inherited disease that caused them to lose much of their sight early in childhood experienced a quick return of vision after...
Single-Dose of Gene Therapy Hailed as ‘Magic Wand’ for Patients with Deadly Condition, Transforming Lives
CRISPR is at it again: this time providing a single-dose option to cure a debilitating genetic disorder called hereditary angioedema.
Patients who took part in...
New Enzyme Allows CRISPR Technology to Accurately Target Almost Any Human Gene
While the original CRISPR gene editing technology could only target 12.5% of the human genome, a new method developed by engineers at Duke University...
For First Time, Pig Kidneys Provide Life-Sustaining Organ Function in Human: Hope for 100,000 on Donor List
For the first time, genetically modified pig kidneys provided “life-sustaining kidney function” during the course of a planned seven-day clinical study—a first step in...
Groundbreaking Immunization Against Lyme Disease Takes Aim at the Microbiomes of Ticks and Mosquitoes
The glory days for some of the most debilitating pathogenic diseases may be numbered thanks to a new class of immunizations that change the...
This Fabric Is Designed to Block Mosquito Bites
In a potentially huge development for fashion in tropical countries, an entomologist has come up with a Spandex-polyester weave that's impermeable to the proboscis...
FDA Clears First Study of CRISPR Gene-Editing in Human Patients
In a national first, the Food and Drug Administration has given Intellia Therapeutics the go-ahead to begin testing a drug that uses CRISPR gene...
Achilles Heel for Glioblastoma Discovered—a Rogue Protein that Turns Natural Defenses Off
A rogue protein that fuels the deadliest brain cancers has been identified by scientists in a breakthrough that opens the door to bettering what...
Aggressive Leukemia Disappears in 13-Year-old Girl Who was First to Receive New CRISPR Treatment
In the latest CRISPR success story, a 13-year-old girl whose leukemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells.
She received...
Lab-Grown Blood Given to People in World-First Clinical Trial
British scientists have grown human red blood cells in a lab for the first time, and conducted a clinical trial to give it to...
3 Years After CRISPR Treatment 73 of 75 Patients Cured of Blood Disease – FDA Approval is Near
The first serious clinical trials in humans using CRISPR continue to wow, after follow-up findings three years post procedure demonstrate that all patients but...
Scientists Discover Genetic Cause of Lupus, a Chronic Autoimmune Disease
An international team of researchers has identified a cause of the autoimmune disease lupus within the DNA mutations of a gene that senses viral...
CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool Redesigned to be 4,000 Times Less Likely to Target the Wrong Strand of DNA
One of the grand challenges with using CRISPR-based gene editing on humans is that the molecular machinery sometimes makes changes to the wrong section...
Breakthrough Using CRISPR to Target Fat Cells in Genetic Study of Obesity
Fat—it is vital for life but too much can lead to a host of health problems. Studying how fat tissue, or adipose, functions in...