Explore CRISPR technology explained, gene editing science, DNA modification, and genetic engineering ethics—discover how ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based ...

By reactivating a long-lost gene, researchers were able to lower uric acid levels and stop damaging fat accumulation in human ...

Promising results from a small clinical trial highlight a growing interest in designing gene-editing treatments for common ...

We here at STAT cover CRISPR a lot. But it’s not every day we get to cover Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The Rock and the genome-editing technology meet in a new movie, “Rampage,” coming out Friday.

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment ...

A longstanding mystery in Parkinson's disease research has been why some individuals carrying pathogenic variants that increase their risk of PD go on to develop the disease, while others who also ...

Scientists introduced CRISPR to the world as a gene-editing tool in summer 2012, when landmark papers from two independent groups demonstrated how the system could be wielded to make cuts in DNA. Now, ...

An experimental gene-editing treatment shows promise for permanently lowering levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, ...

Viruses armed with the gene-editing tool CRISPR could someday be used to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs), results from an early clinical trial suggest. However, the experimental treatment, which ...

In a 15-patient, Phase 1, first-in-human trial, a one-time CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing therapy safely reduced LDL cholesterol ...

What if a heart attack and lifetime of statin drugs could be avoided with a one-time, two-hour infusion? Kiran Musunuru, a University of Pennsylvania cardiologist and leading gene-editing researcher, ...