FOR 20 YEARS Tamani Harris lived a life of pain. She was born with sickle-cell disease. Her red blood cells, made flat and stiff by a mutant version of haemoglobin, struggled to move smoothly through ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

How does the CRISPR Down Syndrome breakthrough work to remove the extra chromosome 21? We are closer than ever to a world where a genetic condition affecting one in every 700 babies could be addressed ...

Over the past two decades, the immune system has attracted increasing attention for its role in fighting cancer. As researchers have learned more and more about the cancer-immune system interplay, ...

St. Georges Technical High School students using CRISPR in a Box. On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a sickle cell disease drug called Casgevy, co-developed by Vertex ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved two gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease, one of the which is the first CRISPR/Cas9-based treatment to win regulatory approval in the US. The ...

Immune cells can target cancer in the clinic. The ability to test a gene-editing technology in mice on a large scale should improve such immunotherapies. Michael Hudecek is in the Department of ...

FILE PHOTO: A sign at the front entrance to the global headquarters of Illumina is pictured in San Diego, California (Reuters) - Illumina said on Tuesday it has partnered with the Broad Institute to ...

Aug 13 (Reuters) - Illumina (ILMN.O), opens new tab said on Tuesday it has partnered with the Broad Institute to develop new kits that will allow large-scale gene ...