Earlier this year, Gallaudet University established a Gene Editing Think Tank, building on years of sustained conversation, ...

It’s one of the most exciting ideas in medicine: prenatal cell and gene therapy, where pathological gene mutations and diseases are corrected in the fetus before it ever leaves the womb, protecting ...

Several gene therapies have been approved over the last few years and hundreds more are being tested, raising hopes for patients with rare disorders, various cancers, and complex neurological diseases ...

The ethics of using safe gene therapies to improve the health and cognition of Down syndrome children and adults.

It's really hard to draw some arbitrary line in the sand. I do wonder if there was much debate back in the day about man-made antibiotics. It's very much in line with antivax thinking. I feel like ...

Three 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners reflect on developing Luxturna, a gene therapy that treats blindness caused by rare ...

UniQure will seek UK marketing authorization for its Huntington’s disease gene therapy AMT-130 in Q3 2026 after favorable talks with the UK regulator. The company is also preparing for a U.S. FDA ...

Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein shared a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their research on genetic causes of sickle ...

While gene therapy for cystic fibrosis is still in the research phase, researchers aim to correct the defective gene responsible for the disease. Current research is promising. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is ...

It's these two lines of thinking which combine distopicaly. Ultimately, this tech is going to belong to the rich who will be able to treat things like mortality as something to fix while the rest of ...