The scientist who was jailed for three years for performing illegal gene-altering on babies has criticized ethics for slowing ...

It's been nearly three years since controversial Chinese biophysicist He Jiankul was released from prison for gene-hacking ...

Dr He Jiankui, a Chinese biophysicist, made the two designer babies, Lulu and Nana, by employing a gene editing technology known as CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short ...

In fact, one scientist claims that he's genetically engineered two babies using a revolutionary tool called Crispr. But what exactly is a "Crispr baby" anyway? Would you like to be 6 feet tall?

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. In a move that has sparked outrage from scientists around the globe, researcher He Jiankui claimed to have used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...

He Jiankui, the researcher responsible for the CRISPR-edited babies, has been sentenced to 3 years in prison. When He Jiankui (formerly Southern University of Science and Technology; Shenzhen, China) ...

However, altering the code of life with CRISPR has been marred by ethical concerns. Perhaps the most prominent example was when Chinese scientist He Jiankui created the first gene edited babies using ...

You may not agree with using the gene-editing tool, CRISPR, to alter the DNA of human babies. But what about using it to engineer plants? Or wipe out one of the world’s most dangerous creatures?

Whether CRISPR babies become a near-future reality may depend on whether such powerful interests become invested in the prospect. Listen to our interview with He Jiankui. Correction (February ...

CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world. The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell.