New gene editing techniques, like adenine base editing and prime editing, are creating new possibilities for treating dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart condition affecting about 1 in 250 people ...

Mini-kidney organoids have now been grown in a laboratory by using genome editing to re-create human kidney disease in petri dishes. The achievement, believed to be the first of its kind, resulted ...

Current gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease are complex, time-consuming, and are sometimes linked to serious side effects like infertility or blood cancer. To address these challenges, Johns ...

Gene editing techniques, including CRISPR, prime editing, and nucleases, allow scientists to tackle genetic diseases, cancer, and more. Researchers increasingly apply these techniques to study and ...

The Canadian government's recent approval of the first gene-edited animal to enter the food system has reignited debates over ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University researchers are helping to advance new techniques that allow scientists to site-specifically mutate and edit the genes of living organisms. The two researchers, ...

Existing gene-editing technologies have led to significant advances in both medicine and food production. However, momentum appears to be slowing, particularly in health applications, as early hype is ...

Gene editing technologies have been used to improve agricultural products for more than two decades. One of the earliest editing technologies was Transfer DNA, T-DNA, which is extracted from ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham in Boston have designed a custom gene editing technique that corrected the mutation behind a rare blood vessel disease in mice, paving the way for further ...

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Despite everything, science goes on. "The way to sell it to the world is through disease prevention...and showing you can do that." Scientific organizations recently called for a 10-year ban on human ...

More and more countries have decided that gene edited crops will be treated the same as conventional plant breeding.