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 ...