Early gene-editing success holds promise for preventing inherited diseases

Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 13:52 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have, for the first time, corrected a disease-causing mutation in early stage human embryos with gene editing. The technique, which uses the CRISPR-Cas9 system, corrected the mutation for a heart condition at the earliest stage of embryonic development so that the defect would not be passed on to future generations.

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