South Africa has an estimated 8 million people living with HIV, making it the country with the largest epidemic.

Investigators from Whitehead Institute, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology to identify three promising ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Researchers at Temple University's School of Medicine and a team at the University of Nebraska Medical Center say they have, for the first time, eliminated the DNA of HIV-1, the ...

He Jiankui, the scientist who claimed to create the first gene-edited babies using CRISPR, is one of the most influential ...

OMAHA, Neb. -- Scientists made major medical announcement Tuesday involving an important step toward a possible cure for HIV. Researchers say a "cure for HIV is possible" after they were able to ...

CRISPR-Cas 9 is a gene-editing tool that made it possible to rewrite any organism's genetic code and tackle genetic diseases more effectively. Known as genetic scissors, CRISPR identifies a DNA ...

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins are core components of fast-evolving therapeutic gene editing tools. Scientists have used CRISPR ...

CRISPR has the power to correct genetic mutations, but current delivery methods are either unsafe or inefficient, keeping the technology from reaching its full medical potential. With the power to ...

CRISPR Therapeutics is the first company to secure an FDA approval of a gene-editing drug. That drug's underlying science, however, could be used to create treatments for any number of genetically ...