This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you took ... that has been delivered in the CRISPR package. By the time the Zika outbreak in Puerto Rico comes ...

For a long time, it was believed that CRISPR wouldn’t be a viable cancer treatment ... As the marketing coordinator at Discover Magazine, Stephanie Edwards interacts with readers across Discover's ...

“It’s very amateurish,” finds Gaétan Burgio, a geneticist at Australian National University whose research focuses on CRISPR-Cas9 and who watched the presentation via webcast. “Technically, it’s just ...

This is the first time CRISPR has been shown to completely eradicate tumors by targeting a single gene — challenging long-held assumptions about the technology’s limitations in cancer therapy.