New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not safe.

Gene therapy represents one of medicine’s most ambitious attempts to treat disease at its root cause by altering the genetic code itself. The approach works by recovering the functions of critical ...

Revolutions in gene therapy are rapidly changing the landscape of modern medicine. Revolutions in gene therapy are rapidly changing the landscape of modern medicine, forcing society and science alike ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A patient in a late-stage gene editing trial for a rare heart condition died from fatal liver complications after receiving an ...

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 ...

Emerging gene-editing platforms are demonstrating that disease-causing mutations, aberrant gene expression, and even large-scale DNA insertions can be corrected without relying on error-prone DNA ...

Urnov is a professor of molecular therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a director at its Innovative Genomics Institute. In May, news broke of a biomedical first: the on-demand ...

Gene-editing is a handy tool for developing sophisticated medicines. A new CRISPR molecule can destroy cells that express specific signals. That could eventually create huge opportunities for new ...

A group of scientists led by Dieter Egli has demonstrated base editing in human embryos. Base editing was shown to precisely edit embryonic DNA but also resulted in off-target edits and mosaicism.

Gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 have many uses in the area of food and agriculture. They can combat persistent drought and disease, and improve the colour and nutritional content of food ...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also threatens to reduce the amount of genetic diversity—or variation—within species ...