After a baby became the world's first CRISPR gene editing therapy patient, CHOP wants to expand treatment to others

One year after receiving CRISPR gene editing therapy at CHOP, a Delaware County baby is thriving, and doctors want to expand ...
University of California, Davis

A Gene Editor That's a Better Fit for Plants

Gene editing has enormous potential to help feed the world’s growing population, but it’s currently difficult, time-consuming ...
Fierce Biotech

FDA illuminates new approval pathway for bespoke gene editing therapies

After teasing a new regulatory process for personalized genetic medicines at the end of last year, the FDA today unveiled draft guidance for an approval pathway that could see custom CRISPR therapies, ...

New targeted base-editing tool corrects genetic brain disorder in mice

Researchers have found that a new base-editing gene therapy can help treat a rare neurodevelopmental disorder called Snijders ...

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology

Ty Sperle says he felt "insane shock" after learning he'd been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using ...

Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania and Rice University have refined a technology for editing individual genetic ...
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Gene editing technology could be used to save species on the brink of extinction

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also threatens to reduce the amount of genetic diversity—or variation—within species ...
KGOU

The FDA creates a quicker path for gene therapies

The Food and Drug Administration aims to evaluate treatments for rare diseases based on plausible evidence that they would ...

Gene editing takes centre stage in FDA’s new rare disease approval pathway

"Gene editing takes centre stage in FDA’s new rare disease approval pathway" was originally created and published by ...
European Medical Journal

Gene Therapy Breakthrough Restores Key Function in Cystic Fibrosis

UCLA researchers use lipid nanoparticles to insert full CFTR gene into airway cells, restoring function and opening new avenues for CF therapy.
Ag UPDATE

Gene-edited bacteria provide nitrogen

If corn was ever jealous of soybean’s relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day even the playing field. A recent study from the ...