Lab tests on mice given the treatment showed considerable cognitive and behavioural functions, new study says.

Researchers have found that a new base-editing gene therapy can help treat a rare neurodevelopmental disorder called Snijders ...

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania and Rice University have refined a technology for editing individual genetic ...

Scientists say they have used the gene-editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases. A ...

Scientists have used a genome-editing technique called base editing to correct a mutation in a baby who had been diagnosed with a rare genetic disease. The bespoke therapy, in which the treatment was ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A gene-editing technology that is being explored by scientists worldwide as a way of removing and replacing gene defects might inadvertently increase cancer risk in cells, ...

Gene editing has enormous potential to help feed the world’s growing population, but it’s currently difficult, time-consuming ...

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: whether gene editing might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol.