Enlarge this image “The therapy has really transformed my life more than I could have ever imagined,” Victoria Gray, the first person…
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For the first time, gene-editing provides hints for lowering cholesterol
by Rob Stein November 12, 2023Enlarge this image Preliminary results from a study show that gene-editing technology can be used to successfully treat a genetic disorder that…
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Sickle cell patient’s success with gene editing raises hopes and questions
by Rob Stein March 16, 2023Enlarge 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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Enlarge this image As scientists learn more about the complex way genes combine and work together to create human traits, the idea…
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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…