Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Genome editing 2 is a powerful new tool for making precise additions, deletions, and ...

Gene editing has emerged as a powerful approach for targeting the genetic causes of disease, but getting the editing ...

For the millions of people living with genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy and inherited liver disorders, one of the most frustrating bottlenecks in gene therapy has been deceptively simple: the ...

The National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine launched this initiative in 2015 to inform decision-making related to recent advances in human genome-editing research. The ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

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For most of her life, Victoria Gray, a 37-year-old mother of four from Mississippi, had experienced excruciating bouts of pain. Born with the blood disorder sickle cell disease, lengthy hospital stays ...

A new generation of genetic engineering techniques, collectively known as “gene editing,” is being hailed as a game-changer in the life sciences. The highest-profile of the new methods, CRISPR, was ...

He Jiankui, a young Chinese scientist known to his American colleagues as JK, dreamed of remaking humanity by exploiting the emergent technology of gene editing. He had academic polish, and an ...