He Jiankui’s name became synonymous with scientific transgression when his secret experiment produced the world’s first gene-edited babies. After serving a prison sentence in China, he is back in the ...

Menlo Ventures has made a $16 million bet that the “ baby KJ ” custom CRISPR therapy success story is repeatable. The funding ...

Gene therapy has always held enormous promise to correct genetic diseases, but turning that potential into treatments has been challenging. In the latest case, the scientists developed a CRISPR ...

(NewsNation) — Doctors used personal gene therapy to treat an infant with a deadly genetic disease in a medical first. KJ Muldoon was born in August of 2024, and DNA sequencing revealed he had ...

Genetically engineered humans may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the quest to create genetically modified babies is getting a reboot. NPR's health correspondent Rob Stein brings us ...

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA ...

Want a disease-free life or a baby with blue eyes? CRISPR might be mankind's gene editing Get Out of Jail Free card, and it's on its way.

He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening for ...

Two prominent leaders in the scientific community have publicly denounced plans recently announced by Russian molecular biologist Denis Rebrikov, PhD, to use CRISPR technology to edit the DNA of human ...