New CRISPR-based test for Covid-19 could be a simple, cheap at-home diagnostic, scientists say
The revolutionary genetic technique better known for its potential to cure thousands of inherited diseases…
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STAT Plus: ‘Science is very much a part of culture’: Siddhartha Mukherjee dives into the history of genetics in a new Ken Burns film
One of the world’s most well-known oncologists and one of the world’s most well-known documentary…
Opinion: Covid-19 is scary. A CRISPR-made pandemic could be scarier
Uncertainty breeds panic. As Covid-19 spreads across the planet, stock markets have crashed in response…
In its first use inside the human body, CRISPR genome editing tested as blindness therapy
Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone’s body for the…
STAT Plus: Beam Therapeutics raises $180 million in IPO
Beam Therapeutics (BEAM), a Cambridge, Mass., genome-editing startup, raised $180 million in an initial public…
DNA sleuths read the coronavirus genome, tracing its origins and looking for dangerous mutations
As infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists race to contain the outbreak of the novel coronavirus…
Listen: Biohacker Josiah Zayner on getting canceled, good news in cancer, and a long road in Ebola
Does pharma deserve more credit? Will history forgive He Jiankui? And how does a laboratory…
Opinion: CRISPR babies scientist He Jiankui should not be villainized — or headed to prison
When I saw the news that He Jiankui and colleagues had been sentenced to three…
Opinion: He Jiankui is going to jail. Would the U.S. criminally prosecute a rogue gene-editing researcher?
On Monday, 13 months after He Jiankui announced that he had created the world’s first…
What will 2020 bring for medicine and science? We asked 16 leaders for predictions
Last year, when we asked science and health care soothsayers to peak ahead to 2019,…
STAT Plus: Creating Pig3.0, the world’s most CRISPR’d animal, raises hopes of transplantable organs
A biotechnology company that is trying to create CRISPR-edited pigs so their organs could be…
First CRISPR treatment for blood diseases shows early benefits in two patients
The first two patients to receive a CRISPR-based treatment for the inherited blood disorders sickle…