This week, I’ve been working on a big story about a controversial treatment that creates babies with three genetic parents. The “three-parent baby” technique was thought to help parents avoid passing diseases on to their kids. But new evidence suggests it doesn’t always work—and could create babies at risk of severe diseases.
The evidence comes from two babies born after the procedure was used to help couples with a different problem: infertility. It’s lucky we found the problem in these cases—these babies didn’t have parents with disease-causing mutations, so they should be fine.
A little-known gene editor, tested with help from a disgraced gene therapist seeking redemption, may have cured a 1-year-old boy of a deadly metabolic disorder. Announced last week by a company developing the therapy, the result could be the first...
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the biotech industry seems boundless. Its combination with CRISPR could be the one area where AI has the most potential.
Nobel prize winner and co-inventor of the CRISPR technology, Jennifer Doudna, recently...
Since its discovery in the early 1940s, epigenetics has been established as a key driver of human development, health, aging, and disease, and is now a burgeoning field of research. In this article, we discover how the epigenome can affect...
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