As thousands of attendees excitedly logged on to the opening session of ASGCT 2021, the 24th annual meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, they ...

The field of gene therapy is at a pivotal moment. With a recent explosion of clinical activity, it is well-poised for further growth — but there are also existing challenges it will need to overcome.

Like other developing countries, Indonesia is facing a familiar dilemma: how to feed a growing population while protecting ...

Scientist and biotech cofounder David Liu is one of the pioneers of drugs that can edit DNA. His lab is developing therapy that could prevent Alzheimer's by installing a protective gene. Liu was named ...

The next frontier in genetic medicines could be one-time therapies that do their editing work in vivo, inside the patient. But one challenge is that some genetic diseases have hundreds of mutations.

Think back to last spring. (You probably don’t want to, but humor me.) Those early months of the coronavirus pandemic in America weren’t all fear and chaos — though there certainly was that. There was ...

For the first time, scientists are reporting they restored vision to people blinded by a rare genetic disorder by infusing the revolutionary gene-editing technique directly into cells inside the body.

The suspicion that something was wrong started when the 1-year-old girl’s parents noticed she had trouble holding up her head. It was just the first of what would be many missed developmental ...

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