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Scientists Discover Potential HIV Cure that Eliminates Disease from Cells Using CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing
A new study has unveiled a likely future cure for HIV which uses molecular scissors to ‘cut out’ HIV DNA from infected cells.
To cut...
New Enzyme Allows CRISPR Technology to Accurately Target Almost Any Human Gene
While the original CRISPR gene editing technology could only target 12.5% of the human genome, a new method developed by engineers at Duke University...
FDA Approves Cure for Sickle Cell Disease, the First Treatment to Use Gene-Editing Tool CRISPR
The first FDA-approved treatment using CRISPR may see hundreds of African Americans cured of sickle cell disease.
Making headlines without end for years, but only...
FDA Clears First Study of CRISPR Gene-Editing in Human Patients
In a national first, the Food and Drug Administration has given Intellia Therapeutics the go-ahead to begin testing a drug that uses CRISPR gene...
CRISPR Gene Editing Reverses ‘Permanent’ Vision Loss in Mice–Offering Hope for Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients
The ‘three blind mice’ of song could actually be seeing again after scientists restored vision in breakthrough research that could reverse the condition in...
Aggressive Leukemia Disappears in 13-Year-old Girl Who was First to Receive New CRISPR Treatment
In the latest CRISPR success story, a 13-year-old girl whose leukemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells.
She received...
3 Years After CRISPR Treatment 73 of 75 Patients Cured of Blood Disease – FDA Approval is Near
The first serious clinical trials in humans using CRISPR continue to wow, after follow-up findings three years post procedure demonstrate that all patients but...
CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool Redesigned to be 4,000 Times Less Likely to Target the Wrong Strand of DNA
One of the grand challenges with using CRISPR-based gene editing on humans is that the molecular machinery sometimes makes changes to the wrong section...
We Can Now Use CRISPR Gene Editing on Ticks – to Fight Lyme Disease in Humans
Reducing tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, may now be possible thanks to two new gene editing methods developed by researchers.
The methods could allow...
Breakthrough Using CRISPR to Target Fat Cells in Genetic Study of Obesity
Fat—it is vital for life but too much can lead to a host of health problems. Studying how fat tissue, or adipose, functions in...
CRISPR Gene-Editing Experiment Partly Restores Vision In Legally Blind Patients
A lot of work is being done in the fields of CRISPR gene-editing, and recently the revolutionary therapy was used to partially restore the...
Researchers Create CRISPR ‘On-Off Switch’ to Control Inherited Genetic Problems Without Changing DNA
Scientists have figured out how to modify the unrivaled gene-editing tool CRISPR to extend its reach to the epigenome, which controls how genes are...
Every Patient Treated With CRISPR Gene Therapy for Blood Diseases Continues to Thrive, More Than a Year On
18 months into the first serious clinical trials of CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia—and all patients are free from symptoms...
Sistema Revolucionario de Edición del Genoma Basado en CRISPR Destruye Células Cancerosas “Permanentemente”
Un equipo de la Universidad de Tel Aviv muestra que su sistema de edición del genoma CRISPR puede mejorar las tasas de supervivencia en un 80% en ratones con cáncer de ovario metastásico.
Revolutionary CRISPR-based Genome Editing System Destroys Cancer Cells ‘Permanently’ in Lab
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have demonstrated that the CRISPR genome editing system is very effective in treating metastatic cancers, a significant step on...
Biologists have Found a Way to Regenerate Neurons in Mice with Parkinson’s Using CRISPR Gene Editing
Using CRISPR to alter the genetics of astrocytes in mice, researchers hope they've discovered how to regenerate neurons in patients with Parkinsons disease.
First Sickle Cell Patient Treated with CRISPR Gene Editing is Now Thriving One Year Later, And Able to Care For Her Kids
Victoria Gray, the first patient to be treated for Sickle Cell Disease with the gene editing technique CRISPR is thriving a year after her treatment.
Scientists Use Gene-targeting Breakthrough Against COVID-19 Cells With CRISPR Tool Called ‘PAC-MAN’
It’s PAC-MAN to the rescue for COVID-19, since Stanford scientists have developed a gene-targeting, antiviral agent nicknamed PAC-MAN with Berkeley Lab.
Single-Dose of Gene Therapy Hailed as ‘Magic Wand’ for Patients with Deadly Condition, Transforming Lives
CRISPR is at it again: this time providing a single-dose option to cure a debilitating genetic disorder called hereditary angioedema.
Patients who took part in...
Good News in History, December 10
199 years ago today, the Reverend Minister George MacDonald was born in Aberdeenshire. A pious and valued member of his community, MacDonald achieved a...