CRISPR has given rise to a booming biotechnology sector, with startups, pharmaceutical giants, and agricultural corporations investing billions.

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CRISPR may be a powerful technology for gene editing, but the system existed in bacteria long before scientists began using it. For billions of years, CRISPR has acted as a natural immune system in ...

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Scientists had tried to treat diseases by editing genes since the 1990s, but the methods were cumbersome and didn’t pay off. Then in June 2012, the journal Science published a paper by two future ...

On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a sickle cell disease drug called Casgevy, co-developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics. It’s the first gene editing treatment ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was one of the most serious public health calamities in the last decade, causing global morbidity and mortality in the millions. The emergence of ...

Dr. Ashley Ellis, a transfusion medicine physician at Stony Brook University Hospital, breaks down how sickle cell disease is diagnosed, the disparities patients face in getting proper care, and the ...

The FDA late last week set for December a groundbreaking decision on whether to grant its first-ever approval for a CRISPR-Cas9 gene-edited therapy—but the milestone so far doesn’t seem to be wowing ...