Cancer cells are known to reawaken embryonic genes to grow. A new study reveals the disease also hijacks the proteins, or ...

UNIVERSITY CITY (WPVI) -- The first attempt in the United States to use a gene-editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in the three patients who have had it so far, but it's too soon to ...

Prof. Lukas Dow, biochemistry, and his team published a study in Nature on Aug. 16, detailing a new, more specific gene editing tool that they created to study cancer mutations through preclinical ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we ...

Cap: Prof. Dan Peer (in blue) and his lab team at Tel Aviv University’s Laboratory of Precision Nanomedicine. Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv University March 23 By John Jeffay Researchers in Israel have ...

MIT researchers have dramatically lowered the error rate of prime editing, a technique with promise for treating numerous genetic disorders. A genome editing method called prime editing could one day ...

For the first time, scientists have found a way to efficiently and precisely remove genes from white blood cells of the immune system and to insert beneficial replacements, all in far less time than ...

Head and neck cancers often begin in the mouth, throat, or voice box. They're among the most common cancers in the world, affecting over half a million people each year and causing about 300,000 ...

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (05/02/2025) — Researchers at the University of Minnesota have completed a first-in-human clinical trial testing a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique to help the immune system ...

A glucose-sensitive nanovaccine delivers CRISPR to tumors, silences immune-suppressing genes, and activates a targeted immune response against cancer. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Immune-based cancer ...

The race to advance gene editing tech continues, spurred on by starry-eyed Silicon Valley investors, entrepreneurs and even ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new advances in basic and biomedical research published in the journal Science by the Spanish National Cancer Research ...