106 articles on gene editing and biotech
DNA stores your genetic blueprint. RNA carries it out. Understanding this difference is the key to understanding everything from CRISPR to mRNA vaccines.
A beginner's guide to gene therapy — how it delivers genetic fixes into cells, the different approaches, and why it's transforming medicine.
In 2024, surgeons transplanted gene-edited pig kidneys into living humans for the first time. With 100,000 Americans on the organ waitlist, CRISPR-edited pigs could end the transplant shortage.
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors deliver therapeutic genes in most approved gene therapies — from Zolgensma to Hemgenix. Here's how they work, their limitations, and what comes next.
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic cost $1,000/month and require lifelong injections. What if a single gene edit could achieve the same effect permanently? Scientists are working on it.
Gene editing and gene therapy sound similar but work in fundamentally different ways. One adds a new gene copy. The other fixes the existing DNA. Here's the difference — and why it matters for patients.
A gene is a section of DNA that contains the instructions for building one protein. You have about 20,000 of them, and they make you you. Here's everything you need to know.
How your cells read DNA instructions and build proteins — the process that gene editing ultimately aims to control.
What if you could silence a disease-causing gene without changing a single letter of DNA? Epigenetic editing does exactly that — and Tune Therapeutics just brought it to human clinical trials.
A beginner-friendly guide to DNA — what it is, how it stores genetic information, and why it matters for gene editing.