Last year, a ten-month-old baby in the US was the first person in the world to have their rare genetic disease effectively ...
Gene therapy has always held enormous promise to correct genetic diseases, but turning that potential into treatments has been challenging. In the latest case, the scientists developed a CRISPR ...
(NewsNation) — Doctors used personal gene therapy to treat an infant with a deadly genetic disease in a medical first. KJ Muldoon was born in August of 2024, and DNA sequencing revealed he had ...
He Jiankui’s name became synonymous with scientific transgression when his secret experiment produced the world’s first gene-edited babies. After serving a prison sentence in China, he is back in the ...
Genetically engineered humans may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the quest to create genetically modified babies is getting a reboot. NPR's health correspondent Rob Stein brings us ...
A big breakthrough is being hailed in the world of gene editing, with the first custom-designed treatment using CRISPR technology (NASDAQ:CRSP). The therapy was developed for an infant named KJ ...
One of the most inherent risks is the risk of damaging healthy genes. This rather brutal issue is step one of risk management. It also means large sequences of amino acids that must be checked, ...
Menlo Ventures has made a $16 million bet that the “baby KJ” custom CRISPR therapy success story is repeatable. The funding has enabled CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., and baby KJ scientist ...