The United Kingdom has become the first country to give regulatory approval to a medical treatment involving the revolutionary CRISPR gene editing tool.

CRISPR: The gene-editing tool revolutionizing biomedical research Editor's note: Since this story aired, viewers have asked about a new clinical trial that will use CRISPR to target certain cancers.

Jennifer Doudna was staring at a computer screen filled with a string of As, Cs, Ts, and Gs—the letters that make up human DNA—and witnessing a debilitating genetic disease being cured right ...

Known for co-inventing CRISPR, Emmanuelle Charpentier discusses how advances in gene editing could transform agriculture, medicine and science itself ...

CRISPR is particularly attractive to the agricultural industry, which is always looking for a way to engineer disease- and weather-resistant crops which will increase yields and, subsequently ...

CRISPR is a revolutionary gene-editing tool that could banish almost all hereditary diseases -- and potentially pave the way for newborns with CRISPR-chosen traits.

CRISPR is a versatile tool for editing genomes and has recently been approved as a gene therapy treatment for certain blood disorders.

CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world. The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell ...

The gene editor will be used in lab dishes in cancer and blood disorder trials, and to directly edit a gene in human eyes in a blindness therapy test.