At meeting on human embryo editing, CRISPR pioneer says science is a long way from knowing if germline DNA can be safely ...

Officials at ARM, ASGCT, and ISCT convened a small group of scientists, policy experts, religious leaders and patient ...

Germline gene editing — like Jiankui performed — alters the genetic code of not just an individual, but of every child, grandchild and great-grandchild the individual has. While somatic gene editing, ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have demonstrated that a genetic method called "pooled prime editing" can screen ...

CRISPR technique can target single genes essential for cancer cell survival, toppling the whole structure, says nanomedicine ...

Gene editing, particularly CRISPR/Cas9-based systems ... They can be used to drive somatic cell reprogramming into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), differentiate iPSCs into desired cell ...

Germline gene therapy and somatic gene therapy are two quite different proposals, and the legitimate concerns and risks of the former should not be used to stall progress on the latter.

We focus on the mouse as a model organism or the development of new technologies and preclinical testing of gene editing therapies ... of in vivo genome editing, developed in part through ...

While gene editing has many potential uses for dogs ... The researchers combined embryo microinjection of CRISPR/Cas9 with somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This marked the first time that ...

Specific examples in both germ cells and somatic cells support a role for RNA granules in the post-transcriptional and epigenetic control of gene expression. Compositionally and functionally ...

Scientists are pushing for reform, arguing that Canada’s law blocks people’s right to benefit from scientific discoveries Ben Schaub “CRISPR” is a powerful gene-editing technology that is ...