A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program ...

Rare genetic diseases are challenging for patients and their families—made all the more overwhelming because symptoms tend to ...

Trisomy is a genetic condition characterized by the presence of an extra chromosome. This means that the affected person has ...

Remember "Baby KJ"? Now CRISPR pioneers have partnered with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to launch center for curing rare ...

The global CRISPR gene editing market size is calculated at USD 4.77 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach around USD ...

Personalized CRISPR cures for children born with rare genetic diseases are now a step closer to being more widely available.

New research has found a novel target with therapeutic potential for metastatic eye melanoma—an aggressive eye cancer—with ...

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...

The Byers Award recognizes outstanding research by faculty members in the middle of their careers. Martin Kampman’s honorary 2025 lecture is titled “A CRISPR approach to neurodegenerative diseases.” ...

CRISPR, which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, is part of that bacterial immune system. "Palindromic" means any sequence that reads the same forward and backward.

CRISPR will allow you to-- do many different things. You can cut it-- to edit it. Bill Whitaker: So you can snip out the bad part and you can add something that you want as well?

Crispr uploads a galloping horse GIF into a living bacteria and more WIRED gene editing coverage. This guide was last updated on July 30, 2020. Enjoyed this deep dive?