A Bay Area biochemist has launched a new company to further research on gene editing on human embryos. Lucas Harrington said the research will focus on using the technology to prevent genetic disease ...

LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - British scientists have used a genome editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas9 to knock out a gene in embryos just a few days old, testing the technique's ability to decipher key ...

It could be a brave new world. Texas Sen. John Cornyn sounded the alarm that a biotech startup firm that has raised some $30 million to study diseases in embryos is working on gene-editing techniques ...

In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this time to prepare for their arrival. Read the paper: Heritable polygenic editing ...

A Silicon Valley startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong is pursuing research that some fear could lead to the birth of a genetically engineered baby — a step that’s ...

(NewsNation) — A Silicon Valley startup is drawing scrutiny for allegedly attempting to genetically engineer human embryos. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company Preventive is working ...

A viral tweet from an X user named Jacob Sansbury is starting up a conversation about the controversial idea of embryo editing. Essentially, this idea imagines a near future in which individuals are ...

A scientist in Sweden has started trying to edit the DNA in healthy human embryos, NPR has learned. The step by the developmental biologist Fredrik Lanner makes him the first researcher known to ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), used CRISPR to engineer cellular models of embryos that mimic what happens in the first few days after reproductive cells meet. These ...

The announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they’ve successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took some people by surprise. With headlines referring to “groundbreaking” ...