STAT

At meeting on guardrails for gene editing of human embryos, some call for a dead end

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...
The New York Times

New Gene-Editing Strategy Could Help Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases

Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for many diseases. By Pam Belluck and Carl Zimmer Gene-editing therapies offer ...
The Scientist

David Liu Wins 2025 Breakthrough Prize for Base Editing and Prime Editing

While researchers have long appreciated the enormous potential of genome editing to treat disease, applications of these technologies in humans have historically been limited by safety concerns. Even ...
The Conversation

South Africa amended its research guidelines to allow for heritable human genome editing

Françoise Baylis is affiliated with the International Science Council, the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) and the Royal Society of Canada. Update ...