CRISPR-based technology is advancing rapidly, driving international competition. Its promise to transform medicine is colliding with political and social realities, even as applications expand.

A single multipurpose gene-editing tool can correct several genetic conditions by restoring proteins that have been truncated ...

A new gene-editing strategy may one day help many people with rare genetic diseases. In a new study published Wednesday in ...

Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for ...

The FDA’s Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad have laid out a path for CRISPR treatments on demand. An expert weighs in on what it ...

A team of researchers at the Broad Institute, led by gene-editing pioneer David Liu, has developed a new genome-editing ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

In new research from Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China, a gene-edited strain of Fusarium venenatum produced richer, more ...

The IUCN vote holds no legal weight in any nation, but it is of huge symbolic, cultural and political importance. By ...

An optimized version of prime editing technology raises the possibility of a one-time treatment for cystic fibrosis. In their 2019 paper, Liu’s team used prime editing to alter the gene mutations ...

Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned ...