Cold viruses don’t reproduce in mice and human cells lacking this protein
At long last, we’re doing genetic editing. What’s the deal with the recent news about CRISPR babies? What does a future full of human genetic editing look like? And how might CRISPR change the food we eat?
Jennifer Doudna joins us to talk about what her innovation (CRISPR) means for health, medicine, and — for better or worse — the ability to redesign ourselves.
We look at a new milestone — a CRISPR treatment that edits a patient’s DNA while it’s still inside their body.
Victoria Gray has sickle cell disease, a painful and debilitating genetic condition that affects millions of people around the world. But an experimental gene-editing technique known as CRISPR could help her — and, if it does, change the way many genetic
Earlier this month NPR health correspondent Rob Stein introduced us to Victoria Gray, the woman at the center of a groundbreaking medical treatment using CRISPR, the gene-editing technique. This week, Rob reports exclusively for NPR on the first results of that closely-watched experiment.