was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor Stanly Qi create a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing kit from a makeshift lab in their parents’ garage.

CRISPR-based Spotlight Therapeutics has shut down, former CEO Mary Haak-Frendscho, Ph.D., confirmed with Fierce Biotech. | ...

When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...

When the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 rocketed to fame more than a decade ago, it transformed biotechnology. Faster, cheaper, and safer than previous methods, the tool helped scientists gain insight ...

In July 2023, Sanofi expanded an existing partnership with Scribe Therapeutics to use its CRISPR-based gene-editing technology to develop both in vivo and ex vivo cancer cell therapies.

On multiple occasions, Kennedy has commented on the potential of CRISPR, a potent and powerful gene-editing tool, to disrupt DNA in unintended and unsafe ways. The nonprofit that RFK Jr. founded ...

Researchers using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tools have discovered that while this technology can enhance T cell cancer therapies, it may also lead to unintended chromosomal loss in the edited immune ...

By Balambal Suryanarayanan CRISPR-Cas9 is a repurposed gene editing tool that allows scientists to cut, replace, and insert pieces of DNA in precise regions along the strand. Courtesy of NIH Image ...

In the spring, five patients with sickle cell disease began treatment with Casgevy, the first FDA-approved CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing treatment. The therapy—which involves removing blood stem ...