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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

New CRISPR technology offers unrivaled control of epigenetic inheritance Date: April 16, 2021 Source: University of California - San Francisco Summary: Scientists have figured out how to modify ...

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.