NBC Chicago

CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool Used for 1st Time Inside Patient's Body to Treat Blindness

Scientists say they have used the gene-editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases. A ...
Hartford Courant

UConn, Connecticut Children’s conducting world’s first gene-editing trial for rare disease: ‘fixing it at its source’

Julieta Bonvin Sallago is constantly plagued by the worry that she will not wake up in the middle of the night when her alarm sounds to remind her to take 40 grams of cornstarch. Now for the first ...
STAT

Celebrating a new, faster path to gene-editing medicines on demand

Urnov is a professor of molecular therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a director at its Innovative Genomics Institute. In May, news broke of a biomedical first: the on-demand ...
MIT Technology Review

This baby boy was treated with the first personalized gene-editing drug

The one-off treatment highlights the promise of a new type of gene editing and the challenges of using it to treat extremely rare genetic diseases. Doctors say they constructed a bespoke gene-editing ...
Android Authority

Exclusive: This is your first look at the upcoming face editor in Google Photos

Google Photos is getting a new “Touch Up” suite of face retouching tools in the editor. We’ve managed to enable the feature for the first time in version 7.56.0.839465534 of the app. Touch Up includes ...