A Crippling And Painful Disease Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a blood disease caused by a genetic mutation. This mutation creates abnormal hemoglobin, the oxygen protein...
The CRISPR Revolution Hundreds and even thousands of diseases have a root cause in genetics. Many of these are, to this day, untreatable or poorly treated....
Gene Editing Hype Gene editing has for a while been hailed as the new frontier in medicine. The peak enthusiasm with investors on this topic was...
A Brief History of CRISPR CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are segments of prokaryotic DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences....
Editas Medicine (NASDAQ: EDIT) is a biotechnology company that focuses on researching drugs using CRISPR. CRISPR, short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, is a...