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In people with type 1 diabetes, the immune system mistakenly destroys the pancreatic beta cells responsible for producing ...

In people with type 1 diabetes, the immune system mistakenly destroys the pancreatic beta cells responsible for producing ...

Ethical and regulatory guardrails must protect patients amid desperation and scientific op ...

Scientists have produced the world’s first genetically modified dogs designed to help people with severe dog allergies live with a pet without ...

Gene editing is like a molecular meet cute. When protein “scissors” dock onto the intended gene, even a tiny slip—no more than the width of a hydrogen atom—can ruin the connection, and the protein may ...

A couple of decades after the discovery of systems that could selectively target DNA, we’re starting to see the first therapies based on gene editing. One challenge these developments have faced is ...

Pioneering gene-editing treatments are already in clinical use, saving lives and easing the pain of devastating genetic diseases. However, the growing number of patients receiving these treatments ...

What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to try to generate a healthier person? It’s a wild idea, but one that technology over ...

The European Union is changing its rules on gene editing. With the introduction of a two-tier system, it has freed certain types of gene-edited crops from the regulation that they would have ...

The technology, still far from clinical use, could one day prevent devastating diseases. But critics warn that even these early results may also fuel interest in commercial embryo editing, despite ...

A preprint describing genetically edited human embryos is raising concerns among scientists that the U.S. is becoming more accepting of using gene editing to enhance embryos. “The cat’s out of the bag ...