A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.

The baby's disease prevented the liver from removing ammonia Half of babies with the disease die in their first week of life The baby has already shown signs of improvement The baby's disease ...

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the ...

Advances in gene editing tools like CRISPR‑Cas9 and pre-implantation embryo screening are turning the idea of designer babies ...

Dr. Musunuru and Dr. Ahrens-Nicklas holding KJ post infusion Senior Correspondent Gene therapy has always held enormous promise to correct genetic diseases, but turning that potential into treatments ...

CRISPR technology could one day create “designer babies, ” raising major ethical and social inequality concerns.

A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is growing and thriving after getting an experimental gene editing treatment made just for him. Researchers described the case in a new study, ...

A Feb. 16 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of what appears to be an X post from conservative author Ashley St. Clair about a child she said she conceived with billionaire ...

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

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 ...