Gene therapies for rare diseases are frequently developed then discarded by drug companies because they can’t afford to produce the treatment for more patients. Gene therapies for rare diseases are ...

It has been seven years since Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui made an announcement that shocked the world's scientists. He had made the world's first gene-edited babies. Through rewriting DNA in twin ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a neuromuscular disorder that results from mutations in the DMD gene. Gene therapies for DMD change genetic material in a person’s body to treat this condition.

At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist and gene-editing pioneer David Liu said that later this year his lab plans to report on a single gene-editing strategy that could treat many ...

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Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

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BUENOS AIRES - They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires ...

Emmy winner Brian Cox (Succession) has a long and storied career in film and television. He’s done Shakespeare and been in an X-Men movie. He also holds the distinction of being the first actor to ...

The two boys both have Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disorder that typically has children wheelchair bound by the age of 12. Average life expectancy is less than 30. But there is a gene ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

A man with type 1 diabetes has become the first patient to produce his own insulin after receiving genetically engineered cell transplants, without needing drugs to prevent rejection. The case, ...