He Jiankui’s name became synonymous with scientific transgression when his secret experiment produced the world’s first ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.” ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who served prison time for creating the world's first gene-edited babies, is planning to repeat ...

When Feng Zhang was in his early 30s, he used a set of genes found in bacteria called CRISPR to pioneer a new kind of gene ...

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

The need to change regulations around gene-editing treatments was endorsed in November by the head of the US Food and Drug ...

Understanding human gene function in living organisms has long been hampered by fundamental differences between species.

Discover the innovative TECHNO platform for full-length gene humanisation, enhancing models for human gene function.

Researchers at The University of Tokyo developed TECHNO, a two-step genome editing strategy that replaces entire mouse loci ...

A multidisciplinary committee of experts studied the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine -- including human germline ...

Humanized mouse models are vital for studying human gene function, but fully replacing mouse genes with complete human ...