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

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

13 July 2023

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

Gene-edited wheat field trial harvesting

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

14 February 2023

Field trials show that a form of wheat developed using CRIPSR gene editing produces lower levels of the potentially carcinogenic compound acrylamide when cooked at high temperatures

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

Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia

11 December 2022

A 13-year-old girl whose leukaemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells after receiving a dose of immune cells that were genetically edited to attack the cancer

Illustration of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing complex

‘Softer’ form of CRISPR may edit genes more accurately

1 July 2022

Gene editing with CRISPR can cause off-target mutations, but this seems to happen less often with an enzyme that cuts one of the strands of DNA instead of both

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

29 June 2022

Scientists in China are considering how best to look after three children who were gene-edited as embryos in He Jiankui’s controversial experiment

Sickle-cell disease is a recessive genetic blood disorder that affects red blood cells

Children to get CRISPR treatment for sickle cell disease in trial

16 June 2022

CRISPR gene-editing trials for treating beta thalassaemia and sickle cell disease are being extended to include people under the age of 12 after positive results in older people

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CRISPR nanocapsule limits growth of aggressive brain tumours in mice

20 April 2022

Tiny capsule that delivers CRISPR gene therapy to the brain could be used to target glioblastoma tumours

Rice and maize yields boosted up to 10 per cent by CRISPR gene editing

24 March 2022

It is possible to significantly boost the yield of rice and maize using CRISPR gene editing, trials in farm fields show

CEM5EK Traditional stacks of Wheat, known as stitches, in a field in Somerset, UK.

Gene-edited food is 5 years away in England, says government scientist

20 January 2022

The UK parliament passed a law to help researchers do trials of gene-edited crops in England, and the chief scientist at the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says it would take at least five years for a product to go from research...