I n 2013, Benjamin Oakes was hellbent on getting his PhD while working on the bleeding edge of molecular engineering: refining a gene editing tool, Crispr, that promised to some day cut DNA as ...

The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR is promising to revolutionize medicine. Some researchers are trying to help make it available for people with very rare genetic disorders.

CRISPR Therapeutics: 2025 TIME100 Most Influential CompaniesCRISPR Therapeutics is a biotech company that borrows its name from the groundbreaking gene editing technology CRISPR. As of last year ...

CRISPR could also be used to custom-design plants optimized for a farmer’s soil type—a kind of personalized agriculture. The challenges of climate change are coming faster than we can react to ...

The European Union on Tuesday approved the world’s first medicine based on CRISPR gene-editing technology to treat two blood disorders, following the U.S. and U.K. in a milestone for the ...