Science Jun 08 How researchers in Florida are using gene editing to protect the state’s orange groves By Colleen Krantz, Iowa PBS
Science Jun 07 How gene editing can help today’s endangered species A legal scholar with a Ph.D. in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals that are currently endangered. By Alex Erwin, The Conversation
Science May 16 Watch 6:43 Breakthrough gene editing treatment helps child born with rare disorder Doctors announced this week that they have treated a newborn baby with a rare genetic disease using the world’s first personalized gene editing therapy. Geoff Bennett discussed the treatment and its potential with Dr. Peter Marks. He oversaw gene therapy… By Geoff Bennett, Jackson Hudgins, Azhar Merchant
Science May 16 Experimental gene editing helped a desperately ill baby thrive. Scientists say it could someday treat millions Though it may be a while before similar personalized treatments are available for others, doctors hope the technology can someday help millions who have been left behind by genetic medicine because their diseases are so rare. By Laura Ungar, Associated Press
Health Dec 09 Watch 5:08 Why the FDA’s approval of revolutionary sickle cell gene therapy is a ‘big deal’ Sickle cell disease is a chronic, debilitating condition that affects nearly 100,000 Americans, most of them with African ancestry. Now, the FDA has approved a groundbreaking treatment for it that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR. John Yang speaks with Yale… By John Yang, Claire Mufson, Harry Zahn
Dec 08 Gene therapies for sickle cell disease approved in U.S. By Laura Ungar, Associated Press Regulators on Friday approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the United States. Continue reading
Nov 16 The world’s first gene therapy for sickle cell disease has been approved in the UK By Maria Cheng, Associated Press In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020. Continue reading
Oct 31 WATCH: Sickle cell gene therapy gets review from FDA advisory committee By Laura Ungar, Associated Press If approved, it would be the first gene therapy on the U.S. market based on CRISPR, the gene editing tool that won its inventors the Nobel Prize in 2020. Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch 3:26 A Brief But Spectacular take on the future of CRISPR By Ana Davila Jennifer Doudna is a Nobel laureate in chemistry and professor of biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a pioneer in CRISPR gene editing and continues to revolutionize research in her field. Doudna… Continue watching
Dec 30 Chinese scientist linked to gene-edited babies sentenced to prison By Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press He disappeared from public view shortly after he announced his research at a conference in Hong Kong 13 months ago, apparently detained by authorities. Continue reading