Base editing—the genome editing technique that alters base pairs using a nuclease-deficient Cas9 fused to a deaminase—was found to restart fetal hemoglobin expression in sickle cell disease (SCD) ...

Every now and then, an editor will call me with a question about changing reporters’ beats. Sometimes the editor wants to create beats that change what the newsroom is covering. Sometimes the editor ...

A breakthrough method that makes editing the genes of living beings relatively easy, called CRISPR, is much in the news these days. So are the many implications—both terrifying and ...

WHAT comes next? Last week, it was announced that a 1-year-old girl called Layla has been saved from leukaemia by an experimental gene therapy. It was used as a last resort after all other treatments ...