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

A growing body of research shows that cultural values strongly influence public attitudes toward CRISPR, with Japanese respondents focusing on legal frameworks and Americans on religious concerns.

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CRISPR Therapeutics is still losing money, but it has an expanding pipeline. The biotech is seeing growing sales from its one product, Casgevy. It also has other promising drug candidates in its ...

Scientists have taken an important step toward a gene therapy that could one day turn off the extra genetic material that causes Down syndrome (DS). Down syndrome is a genetic condition caused by an ...