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Two women just won the Nobel Prize for their work on the gene-editing technique CRISPR

The technology can alter human, plant, and microbial DNA with relative ease and extreme precision.
By Sep 18, 2019
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The key to curing the common cold could lurk within our own cells

Targeting proteins that give the viruses a hand.
By Aug 8, 2019
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Doctors altered a person’s genes with CRISPR for the first time in the U.S. Here’s what could be next.

A woman with sickle cell anemia had her genes edited to make normal functioning red blood cells.
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The gene mutation that protects against HIV could also shorten lives

Genetics is never so simple.
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Engineering HIV-resistant babies may have accidentally changed their brains

In genetics, one small tweak can have tons of unexpected results.
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CRISPR has many promising applications—but the gene-edited twins represent something more troubling

Editing human embryos makes far more permanent changes than tweaks to adult DNA.
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Gene editing can’t help human fetuses yet, but it just made a big leap in mice

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Americans have some really mixed feelings about editing human embryos

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