A team of doctors in the UK claim to have cured two babies of leukaemia by treating them with genetically engineered donor cells. The experiments, which involved engineering T ...
January 26, 2017 at 5:30 pm by Ashley Allen
A team of doctors from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine have become the first to be approved to begin trials using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing ...
June 23, 2016 at 7:00 pm by Ashley Allen
We are often taught that in order to solve a problem we break it down to its simplest parts and then deal with each part on its own. Some scientists have taken this to heart ...
April 11, 2016 at 4:40 pm by Gareth Andrews
UK scientists have been given permission by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to use gene-editing techniques to modify human embryos. Dr Kathy Niakan and the ...
February 1, 2016 at 5:33 pm by Ashley Allen
