

Science Nov 20

The first two patients to receive a CRISPR-based treatment for the inherited blood disorders sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia have benefited from the experimental therapy and experienced only temporary and treatable side effects.
By Sharon Begley, STAT, Adam Feuerstein, STAT News
Health Nov 06

Doctors were able to take immune system cells from the patients' blood and alter them genetically to help them recognize and fight cancer, with minimal and manageable side effects.
By Marilynn Marchione, AP Chief Medical Writer
Science Jul 02

Antiretroviral therapy is the standard HIV treatment, but patients are never rid of the virus. A new study raises the possibility of HIV elimination through gene-editing with CRISPR.
By Berly McCoy
Science Jun 09

Researchers describe combining a "jumping gene" with CRISPR enzymes to deliver a a package of DNA to precise addresses in the E. coli genome.
By Sharon Begley, STAT
May 14

By Vicky Stein
Gene-editing with CRISPR reveals why snail shells are asymmetrical and coil either left or right.
Dec 01

By Lev Facher, STAT
The apparent birth this month of the first genetically modified babies is “a lesson in the potential for human hubris to overtake us,” Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health.
Jul 18

By Sharon Begley, STAT
The DNA damage found in the new study included deletions of thousands of DNA bases, including at spots far from the edit. Some of the deletions can silence genes that should be active and activate genes that should be silent,…
Aug 02

By PBS NewsHour
For the first time, U.S. scientists have genetically edited human embryos with CRISPR, thanks in part to regulatory loopholes.
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