Year: 2019

Shares of Crispr Therapeutics (CRSP) jumped Tuesday after the biotech company’s gene-editing approach showed early promise. During the regular session on the stock market today, Crispr stock popped 17%, to 68.46, in above-average volume. At nine months following infusion, the beta thalassemia patient didn’t need a blood transfusion. Four months after...

The first attempt in the United States to use a gene editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in three patients who’ve had it so far,  doctors reported Wednesday. The doctors were able to take immune system cells from the patients’ blood and alter...

There’s been a lot of excitement lately that the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR could offer a new way to treat health problems ranging from cancer to blindness. But there hasn’t been much direct scientific evidence in actual patients about whether it might work or would...

Scientists say is a step toward a CRISPR gene therapy that could block severe pain caused by diabetes, cancer, or car accidents without the addictive effects of opioids. The street performer was only 10 years old. He put knives through his arms and walked on...

Scientists will soon wield the molecular scissors CRISPR/Cas9 in the human body. Some people with a form of inherited blindness will have the gene editor injected into their eyes, where researchers hope it will snip out a mutation. Since its debut in 2012, CRISPR gene...

Genes and proteins in cells interact in many different ways. Each dot represents a gene; the lines are their interactions. For the first time, the new method uses biotechnology to influence entire gene networks in a single step(Credit: ETH Zurich / Carlo Cosimo Campa) We’ve seen...