Antibiotic resistance is racing toward a global crisis, with “superbugs” projected to cause over 10 million deaths annually by 2050. Now, scientists at UC San Diego have unveiled a powerful new CRISPR ...

After teasing a new regulatory process for personalized genetic medicines at the end of last year, the FDA today unveiled draft guidance for an approval pathway that could see custom CRISPR therapies, ...

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 ...

CRISPR gene drives bias inheritance in pests, advancing population-level control while raising questions about resistance and ecological governance.

New research dramatically expands the number of naturally occurring versions of CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs), giving researchers a wealth of potential new tools for large-scale gene editing.

Imagine if, instead of delivering a leaflet individually to each home, a postal worker just had to give one to a volunteer on each block, who then photocopied it and handed out copies to neighbours.

For years, researchers have been trying to figure out how to treat inherited blood disorders like sickle cell disease without causing new health problems in the process. Now, a team of scientists from ...

Gene editing has enormous potential to help feed the world’s growing population, but it’s currently difficult, time-consuming ...

Reviving an ancient human gene that prevents gout and fatty liver disease, scientists at Georgia State University have marked a potential breakthrough in treating these metabolic conditions. Using ...

DENVER, Jan. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CRISPR gene-editing, and related genome engineering technologies, are reshaping industries from medicine to materials, with breakthroughs in treating genetic ...

Gene editing figures to be part of the future of medicine, but a popular system for it has some room for improvement, researchers say. That’s why a team from UC San Diego in La Jolla set out with Yale ...

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