Teen first in world to be cured of rare disease through gene editing treatment

Blood stem cells were enriched and treated with a gene editing product that targeted and corrected the mutation in the gene responsible for CGD. As a...

Team has Used CRISPR to engineer custom bacteriophages that could treat drug-resistant infections

...a team has used a rare form of CRISPR to engineer custom bacteriophages, a development that could aid in the treatment of drug-resistant infections...

Bacteriophages are viruses that kill harmful bacteria. Read more here: UC San Diego - What is Phage Therapy? - TGR Editor

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

A teenage girl's incurable cancer has been cleared from her body in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine. Base editing allows...

FYI: Base editing is applied CRISPR-Cas9. See https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03536-x for more. - TGR Editor