Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA ...

Gene-editing technologies show great promise for medical treatments and research, with the potential to cure thousands of ...

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing enzyme. [Artur Plawgo / iStock / Getty Images Plus] We need a patient-first approach for any variant in any patient, whomever, wherever they are. Each and every patient ...

Picture CRISPR-Cas9, a gene editing technology, as a GPS-guided scalpel: gRNA directs the Cas9 enzyme, a protein that cuts ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. Celena Lozano’s son Benny, who turned 5 in November, loves trains, trucks — anything that goes. He also has a rare disease, PURA syndrome. Earlier this ...

And, if all goes well, over the next five years as well.

As CRISPR moves from lab success to real-world medicine, 2026 will test whether these revolutionary gene-editing therapies can reach the patients who need them most or remain costly, complex ...

Infection with the pathogenic yeast fungus Candida auris (C. auris) can wreak havoc on the health of hospital patients and ...

This little company's scientific breakthrough opened up a whole new sliver of the drug market (although it's still leading the developmental race). Small biopharma story stocks just aren't paying off ...

Crops around the world are under pressure from high temperatures, unpredictable weather patterns and disease. Something must be done to protect them. Gene editing in agriculture can make crops more ...