Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long ...

Correcting a single typo in a book is easy. But if that book is the blueprint for a person yet to be born, the story changes.

The possibility of editing the DNA of human embryos became a matter of serious debate more than a decade ago, after the ...

The report notes that gene editing has so far largely relied on CRISPR-based technologies, which allow scientists to cut and ...

The ‘base editing’ technique that researchers used is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry it will spur a rush to ...

CRISPR (pronounced “crisper”) is a gene-editing technology that allows scientists to make precise changes to DNA. Think of ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these mutations cause serious diseases that pass down only through mothers. They ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...