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CRISPR-edited poplar trees (left) and unedited poplar trees (right)

Technology

CRISPR-edited trees reduce the energy and water required to make paper

Genetically editing poplar trees reduces the resources required to harvest their wood's cellulose, which makes up paper

News

T861Y1 CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing complex, illustration

Health

The high cost of CRISPR therapy will stop it getting to most patients

Leader

How CRISPR therapy could cure everything from cancer to infertility

Health

How CRISPR therapy could cure everything from cancer to infertility

Features

M93A81 Golden colored Asian Rice plants (Oryza sativa) growing in their natural condition with drooping rice grains and a mountain background in rural Japan

Life

Gene-edited rice may be able to grow on Mars

News

Sickle cell red blood cells

Health

Sickle cell disease is now curable, but the treatment is unaffordable

News

Gene-edited wheat field trial harvesting

Health

Gene-edited wheat reduces levels of cancer risk chemical when cooked

News

Amyloid plaques forming between neurons. Beta-amyloid protein disrupting nerve cells function in a brain with Alzheimer's disease

Health

Alzheimer’s disease progression slowed using CRISPR technique in mice

News

Alyssa on the day she received the base-edited cell therapy in May

Health

Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia

News

Two Labrador puppies

Life

Labrador dogs gene edited and cloned to prevent inherited hip disease

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Two beagle puppies

Life

Gene-edited dogs created from cloned skin cells for the first time

New gene-editing approach could be used to eliminate disease-causing mutations from pedigree dog breeds or even from clones of individual dogs

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Health

‘Softer’ form of CRISPR may edit genes more accurately

News

Health

What's next for the gene-edited children from CRISPR trial in China?

Insight

Health

Children to get CRISPR treatment for sickle cell disease in trial

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Health

CRISPR nanocapsule limits growth of aggressive brain tumours in mice

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