While the medical world is melting down from the absolute apocalypse that is RFK Jr., it's good to celebrate that (at least ...

“There’s little controversy over somatic cell gene editing: We’ve been doing that now for many years,” says Williams. “That’s very much in contrast to germ cell gene editing, which is ...

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An international group of gene editing leaders has put out a call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome editing (HHGE), ...

Broad Institute researchers have developed a way to edit the genetic sequences at the root of Huntington's disease and ...

To investigate how Cas9 gene editing affected T cells, the researchers targeted the first exon ... Tsuchida and his colleagues used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit multiple genes on every somatic chromosome. They ...

Currently, gene therapies mainly use a technique called "somatic editing." This applies to Casgevy, for example. Somatic editing works by targeting a subset of non-sex cells in the body and thus ...

Here's the crux: These gene therapies only alter somatic cells—that is, cells that make up the body. The changes only affect the treated person. Germline editing, on the other hand, opens an entirely ...

Unlike so-called somatic gene editing, where one type of cell or tissue (the one where a mutation is wreaking the most havoc and causing disease) is targeted for modification, editing an embryo ...

A research team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed and safely delivered a personalized gene editing therapy to treat ...