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He Jiankui attempted to make babies resistant to HIV

Scientist behind world’s first gene-edited babies sentenced to prison

30 December 2019

He Jiankui, the scientist who used CRISPR to create two gene-edited girls born in 2018, has been handed a three-year jail term by a court in Shenzen, China

Jiankui He (right) and another researcher

Could CRISPR babies experiment have been made public earlier?

19 December 2019

He Jiankui submitted his work to the journal Nature before it was made public, raising questions of whether journals have a responsibility to raise ethical issues

New Scientist ranks the top 10 discoveries of the decade

18 December 2019

The 2010s saw huge advancements across science and technology. Relive the best moments with our definitive ranking of the decade

CRISPR upgrade could make genome editing better and safer

21 October 2019

A new variant of CRISPR, dubbed prime editing, should make it even better at correcting disease-causing mutations

Don't miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans

18 September 2019

This week: when two cultures collide, the plight of the world's rarest porpoise and humans manipulating their future

Exclusive: Five couples lined up for CRISPR babies to avoid deafness

4 July 2019

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov plans to help five couples who are deaf try CRISPR gene-editing to avoid having a child that inherits the condition

Have mice really been cured of HIV using CRISPR gene editing?

2 July 2019

Some mice receiving a therapy that includes CRISPR gene editing appear to have been cured of HIV, but safety concerns must be overcome before human trials

Current techniques are based on the CRISPR-Cas9 complex

Another team has used 'jumping genes' to upgrade CRISPR gene editing

12 June 2019

Two research teams have developed new kinds of CRISPR based on jumping genes. The techniques could make it much easier to insert pieces of DNA into genomes