Over the next year, a series of clinical milestones and regulatory decisions—what companies and investors like to call “inflection points”—will set for years to come the direction of what has been ...

Medical geneticists provide diagnosis, counseling, management, and treatment for individuals and families affected by genetic disorders. These disorders are due to genetic variations that may range ...

Some genome editing systems are highly conspicuous. They introduce double-strand breaks to DNA that attract the attention of cellular mechanisms such as nonhomologous end joining and homology-directed ...

A team of U.S.-based scientists who genetically edited scores of human embryos to remove a disease gene say they’ve laid the foundation for trying to create the first gene-modified people. Shoukhrat ...