#gene editing

Blog / Gene Drive: The What, How, Why, and Whether We Should

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 / Nila Pazhayam /

Taking genome modifications to the population level – how it may help, and how it may hurt.

Blog / Fungi Join the Fight Against Malaria

July 27, 2019August 5, 2019 / Gabrielle Budziszewski /

Gene-edited fungi have been used to fight against malaria by infecting mosquitoes.

Blog / Are some of us “immune” to genome editing?

July 25, 2019August 1, 2019 / Dominika Trzilova / 1

Crispr-Cas9 seems like a promising system to treat human disease but what if humans are immune to it?

Blog / Your Guide to the CRISPR Babies

March 4, 2019April 2, 2019 / Kasey Skinner /

Imagine a future in which we can edit genes like a sentence in Microsoft Word. We could highlight, delete, and correct a section of a gene known to cause disease,…

Blog / Putting the Brakes on CRISPR

August 14, 2018October 9, 2018 / Nicholas Martinez /

CRISPR-Cas9, more commonly referred to as CRISPR, has been one of the hottest terms in science over the last few years. For goodness sake, Jennifer Lopez is the executive producer…