A day after a blockbuster report that researchers had edited harmful genetic mutations out of human embryos in an Oregon lab, an international group of genetics experts urged scientists against taking ...

Letters Editor Betty Talbert writes: An assembly line works because each person is a specialist at the task they do and quality is the expected result. When each specialist does his or her part as a ...

Rarely has a new scientific method created such a ruckus as the Crispr gene-editing technique. It has been touted as potentially offering a way to cure malaria, HIV, cystic fibrosis and more. This is ...

The news that Chinese scientist He Jiankui had edited the genomes of twin baby girls who were born last fall was greeted with outrage and widespread condemnation by the scientific community. Now ...

Gene editing’s therapeutic application has transitioned from hypothetical to reality, marked by the recent approval of a CRISPR-based therapy for sickle cell and beta thalassemia. In the wake of these ...

Tweaking the human genome with current and future gene-editing tools could lead to sophisticated treatments and prevention strategies for disease. The promise of those applications is reason enough to ...

Many of today’s largest enterprises rely on their corporate relations teams for all facets of internal and external communications. These teams are often filled with fantastic writers, including ...