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CRISPR Gene Editing Is Being Tested in Human Patients, and the Results Could Revolutionize Health Care

By Alice Park

For the First Time, Researchers Eliminated HIV From the Genomes of Living Animals

By Alice Park

'They Will Be Studied for the Rest of Their Lives.' How China's Gene-Edited Twins Could Be Forever Changed By Controversial CRISPR Work

By Alice Park

University 'Shocked' After Claim of Genetically Edited Babies

By Alice Park
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Scientists Created Low-Fat Pigs by Editing Their Genes With CRISPR

Genetically editing pig genomes makes them better able to tolerate cold, which could save farmers millions

By Alice Park

Researchers are Now Editing Genomes of Human Embryos

Scientists have used CRISPR to alter the genomes of human embryos in order to learn more about how embryos develop

By Alice Park

Why People May Have Pig Organs Inside Them One Day

More than 116,000 Americans are waiting to receive an organ transplant, and about 20 die each day during the wait. Scientists are eager to find solutions to the organ shortage.That’s why a recent landmark report...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Scientists are Getting Closer To Using Pig Organs For Human Transplants

In a scientific first, researchers have created piglets that could possibly one day provide organs for human transplants. Though the science is still early, it’s a big step forward in the quest to use pig...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Low-Calorie Ice Cream, CRISPR and Dog Vaccines: This Week in Health

For the first time in the U.S., scientists have used the gene editing technology CRISPR to edit out genetic disease in human embryos. In another first—this from the world of nutrition—the low-calorie ice cream brand...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

CRISPR Used to Fix Genetic Disease in Human Embryos

Chinese scientists may have been the first to use CRISPR, a powerful new gene editing tool, to fix genetic defects in human embryos, but the first U.S. scientists to achieve the same feat say their method is more reliable

By Alice Park

Researchers Edit Embryo Genes to Correct Disease

Scientists applied a powerful new gene editing technique to correct genetic defects in human embryos

By Alice Park

How Scientists Think CRISPR Will Change Medicine

With the advent of CRISPR, a new way to edit DNA, the field of genomic technology has never been more exciting. The implications have yet to be seen, but scientists could theoretically snip out a...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Here’s Another Way CRISPR Is Changing Medicine

Gene editing, through a technology called CRISPR, can edit DNA almost as easily as a word processor edits text. Now that system is being used to diagnose the presence of cancer and to create on-the-spot...

By Alice Park

Harvard, MIT Win Big Gene Editing Patent Fight

The decision will have huge effects on the biotech industry

By Alice Park

How Gene Editing Could Ruin Human Evolution

CRISPR snips away risky genes—but even the bad have good in them

By Jim Kozubek

Here's Why Some Cancer Is Resistant to Drugs

Using a new gene editing technique called CRISPR, scientists learned how melanoma and lung cancers can become resistant to anti-cancer drugs

By Alice Park

Chinese Scientists to Begin First Human CRISPR Trial

The trial will enroll people with lung cancer who have not found other treatment

By Abigail Abrams

First CRISPR Human Trial Approved in the U.S.

The breakthrough gene-editing technology is moving forward

By Alexandra Sifferlin

How Science Can Change Your Genes

Behind the revolutionary new gene-editing technology

By Alice Park , Lon Tweeten and Alexandra Sifferlin

Hannah Whitaker: The Science and Art of Constructing Images

The art photographer takes on the complex story of CRISPR, a genome editing tool

By Cassidy Paul and Natalie Matutschovsky
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