Biotechnology and health

The lucky break behind the first CRISPR treatment

The world’s first commercial gene-editing treatment is set to start changing the lives of people with sickle-cell disease. It’s called Casgevy,

On a picturesque fall day a few years ago, I opened the mailbox and took out an envelope as thick

That’s a real nice CRISPR cure you have there. It would be a pity if anything happened to it. Okay.

Money can’t buy happiness, but X Prize founder Peter Diamandis hopes it might be able to buy better health. Today

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Just as birth certificates note the time we enter the world, death certificates mark the moment we exit it. This

Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your mind for decades. It’s not easy, mind you. First, you must

How life begins is one of the biggest and hardest questions in science. All we know is that something happened

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