FDA Clears Way for Faster Personalized Gene Editing Therapy

A top US regulator plans to unveil a faster approach to approving custom gene-editing treatments, a move designed to unleash a wave of industry investment that will yield cures for patients with rare ...
Nature

‘Biotech Barbie’ says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree?

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes ...
STAT

Parents of children with rare diseases ask: How long until our CRISPR miracle?

Lozano is a rare disease mom, neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at UC Davis, and board member for the PURA Syndrome Foundation. In May, a historic moment in science and medicine was captured in a single ...
Medical Xpress

Human organ chip technology sets stage for pan-influenza A CRISPR RNA therapies

The influenza A virus (IAV) has been the cause of six major flu pandemics, responsible for 50 to 100 million deaths globally. In the U.S. alone, it is estimated that despite seasonally updated ...