Enlarge this image In London to address a gene-editing summit last week, Victoria Gray took a break to visit Sir John Soane’s…
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Ethical concerns temper optimism about gene-editing for human diseases
by Rob Stein March 8, 2023Enlarge this image Researchers meeting in London this week concluded that techniques that have made it easier to manipulate DNA still produce…
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Experts weigh medical advances in gene-editing with ethical dilemmas
by Rob Stein March 6, 2023Enlarge this image Biophysicist He Jiankui addressed the last international summit on human genome editing in Hong Kong in 2018. His experiments…
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CRISPR gene-editing may boost cancer immunotherapy, new study finds
by Rob Stein December 13, 2022Enlarge this image Katie Pope Kopp, 64, of Parkville, Mo., at Union Station in Kansas City this week. Kopp underwent a new…
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2 Chinese Babies With Edited Genes May Face Higher Risk Of Premature Death
by Rob Stein June 3, 2019Enlarge this image The genetic variation Chinese scientist He Jiankui was trying to re-create when he edited twin girls’ DNA may be…
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First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway
by Rob Stein April 16, 2019Enlarge this image CRISPR gene-editing technology allows scientists to make highly precise modifications to DNA. The technology is now starting to be…
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Enlarge this image There was an uproar in 2018 when a scientist in China, He Jiankui, announced that he had successfully used…
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Scientists Call For Global Moratorium On Creating Gene-Edited Babies
by Rob Stein March 13, 2019Enlarge this image There was an uproar in 2018 when a scientist in China, He Jiankui, announced that he had successfully used…