Today’s headlines highlight critical developments in genetic medicine, global politics, and the latest updates from the ...

Updates to South African research ethics guidelines which recognize significant potential for treating genetic diseases ... they open the way to “designer” babies. The call followed a meeting ...

Humans will be ‘irrevocably altered’ by genetic editing warn scientists ahead of summit ... coming years as the science behind screening for them is developed.” (Designer Babies – Like it or not, Here ...

A gene-edited mouse with two male parents has survived to adulthood, pushing new progress on stem cell research.

Emirates Health Services (EHS) is bringing in-utero gene editing techniques into the country. This method focuses on directly and permanently correcting gene mutations by altering genes at the DNA ...

This was used to correct the mutation in the ABCA4 gene that causes the disease. ‘ Their study, ‘High-efficiency base editing in the retina in primates and human tissues’, was published in ...

A research group led by Wei Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has created mice born from two male parents and capable of reaching adulthood. This builds on previous work from the group in ...

In the new study, mice were created through genetic editing of mouse embryonic stem cells targeting a class of mammal-specific genes known as imprinted genes, of which there are about 200 ...