To fulfill its revolutionary promise, the gene-editing technique will need to be edited.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that somebody is going to end up hurt eventually.”
There's a lot of money to be made in gene-editing technology.
Can the gene editing technique redeem the reputation of engineered crops?
The pioneer biochemist feels a responsibility to weigh in on ethical debates about gene editing.
“I was sitting in the front, and I just heard this gasp from everyone behind me.”
Feng Zhang says many problems still have to be solved before the technology can be used to treat human diseases.
CRISPR, the powerful new gene-editing technique, has helped to solve a fishy mystery about how our fingers and toes evolved.
Engineering animals with CRISPR can help biologists to understand the genes behind some of evolution’s most dramatic changes.
The popular gene-editing technique can deliver a step-by-step account of how a single-cell embryo becomes a trillion-cell animal.