The high cost of CRISPR therapy will stop it getting to most patients
5 July 2023
The world’s first CRISPR therapy may be approved soon, but sadly it is unlikely to be affordable for hundreds of thousands of people whose pain it could end
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CRISPR gene editing used to store data in DNA inside living cells
11 January 2021
Biologists have used CRISPR gene editing to store information inside DNA in living bacterial cells, which could become a storage medium of the future
What is a genetically modified organism?
17 July 2020
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is usually defined as an organism whose DNA has been altered by genetic engineering.
CRISPR
6 June 2019
CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world.
Handheld device could detect CRISPR bioweapons before they spread
13 March 2019
Bits of DNA known as gene drives that force themselves through a population could be use maliciously, but thankfully there is a way to detect them before they spread
The gene editing revelation that shocked the world
5 December 2018
Last week, He Jiankui announced that he had created the world's first gene-edited babies. Scientists around the world have condemned the experiment
Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution
3 December 2018
Molecular biologist Helen O’Neill reveals why precision genetic engineering is the most exciting thing since spliced DNA
First attempt to get CRISPR gene editing working in sperm
3 July 2018
Researchers say they have managed to get the CRISPR machinery into mature human sperm, but we don’t know yet whether it can successfully edit sperm genes
How to think about... Life
27 June 2018
What distinguishes a human from a virus from an inert rock? There are many definitions for what it means to be alive – and soon humanity might fail some
