Seven of the 67 children who received Bluebird Bio's gene therapy for a serious neurological disease in a clinical trial went on to develop blood cancer,...
About 79% of clinical trial participants experienced visible improvement after undergoing CRISPR-based gene editing aimed at curing a rare form of blindness, according to a...
Besides organ rejection, one of the most common transplant complications is infection. Physicians must strike a balance when prescribing immunosuppressants. Too low a dose may cause...
CNN’s Meg Tirrell sits down with Johnny Lubin, one of the first in the world to try a new kind of medicine that uses a gene-editing...
About 13 people die every day while waiting for a kidney transplant because of a lack of organ donors, but some scientists think pigs could be...
Dornbusch believes this strategy protects patients from serious side effects and “off-target” editing (unintended cuts elsewhere in the genome that can cause problems such as cancer)....
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