gene editing

A cutting-edge cure or CRISPR catastrophe? That's the question facing regulators.

A Defense Dept. report on biowarfare cites China as 'a pacing challenge' for the U.S., after decades of ...

Four years ago, Chinese scientist He Jiankui stunned the global scientific community when he created at least three ...

Mustard greens that have been genetically altered to remove their pungent flavor are coming to U.S. grocery stores. ...

Is China getting closer to setting up a spy base in America’s backyard? The White House is responding ...

Late last week, it was revealed that Chinese military scientists have been experimenting with the gene sequences of ...

Gene editing has long been primarily used for research, treatment, and disease prevention. Currently, this technology is increasingly ...

Sure, we know that most conventionally produced meat isn’t the healthiest food.  For instance, numerous studies linked the ...

Hoping to fend off concerns about eating ‘gene-edited’ food, the British government claims the process it plans to ...

Jesse Gelsinger, 18, had a rare metabolic disorder called ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency syndrome, or OTCD, in which ammonia ...

Most people are familiar with the term genetically modified foods (GM foods or GMOs), but not so with ...

The UK government on Wednesday announced rule changes that will make it easier to research and develop “gene-edited” ...

News Analysis This is the first of three articles that introduce readers to the research and mission of ...

In this special report, we discuss Beijing's ambition over one of the most sensitive types of data—DNA. The ...

Commentary In January, a group of scientists started working on clinical trials to cure sickle cell anemia, an ...

A “perfect man” through gene editing. A “customized human” beginning with gene-modified embryos. This is already underway in ...

A top U.S. intelligence official recently confirmed that the Chinese regime is seeking to develop “super soldiers” through ...

NEW YORK—The genetics revolution has begun, in which scientists now have the ability to "hack the code of ...

LONDON—A rogue Chinese scientist who caused outrage last year when he said he had created the world's first ...

Stanford University has started a review of interactions that some faculty members had with He Jiankui, the Chinese ...

LONDON—A leading geneticist who ran the conference where a Chinese scientist said he had made the world's first ...

News Analysis To much fanfare, a top Chinese scientist in late November announced the creation of the first ...

Today, the scientific community is aghast at the prospect of gene editing to create “designer” humans. Gene editing ...

HONG KONG—Early last year, a little-known Chinese researcher turned up at an elite meeting in Berkeley, California, where ...

The Francis Crick Institute, based in the UK, has had a research application for genetically modifying human embryos ...

LONDON—Britain's fertility regulator has approved a scientist's application to edit the human genetic code using a new technique ...

Biologists at the Francis Crick Institute in London have applied for a license to edit the genome of ...