China issued guidelines on Friday to promote biotech cultivation, focusing on gene-editing tools and developing new wheat, ...

Autophagy is the process by which cells digest and renew their internal structures, recycling damaged or malfunctioning ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...

In a shift away from GMOS, aka genetically modified organisms, important research is continuing in gene editing, sometimes ...

The Rice lab of bioengineer Gang Bao and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the ...

A CRISPR-based system that erases itself from fly populations may offer a safer approach to tackling insecticide resistance ...

Scientists in the polo-obsessed nation have produced world's first genetically edited horses, designed to outrun champion ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or inactivating genes. Precisely fixing disease-causing mutations is far more ...

For many years, cloned ponies have excelled in the prestigious equestrian sport of polo, and the sport has now taken a ...

Researchers developed an epigenetic editing approach to silence the PCSK9 gene, achieving long-term cholesterol reduction ...

Cutting-edge editing techniques are accelerating efforts to create high-yield, resilient varieties of major agricultural products.

But amid all the fervor and history-making lies a few teething issues. Namely, even with the improved specificity CRISPR-Cas9 has brought to gene-editing, accidental, off-target effects still happen.