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CRISPR is a gene editing tool that is revolutionizing medical care with prospective cure for genetic diseases like cancer, diabetes, DMD, eye diseases, obesity.

Via Wired (emphasis added): A gene-editing startup wants to help you eat healthier salads. This month, North Carolina–based Pairwise is rolling out a new type of mustard greens engineered to be less b...

Stem cell therapies have been making significant progress in restoring vision loss. Here we describe recent advances that use CRISPR to treat retinitis pigmentosa.

Pairwise, an agricultural biotechnology company, created Conscious Greens Purple Power Baby Greens Blend, the first CRISPR-edited food available to U.S. consumers. (Article by Dr. Joseph Mercola [...]

The Food and Drug Administration has taken baby steps in helping advance approvals of gene-edited animals for food production; however, the insistence by FDA that changing an animal’s DNA is a “drug” and out of USDA’s purview could keep innovation decades away from producer adoption. 

Treatment in utero could cure diseases before birth. Recent advances in lab animals may bring medicine closer to achieving it—but this field is still in its infancy.

Chefs and nutrition-conscious salad lovers will now be able to select leafy greens that have unique flavors and enhanced nutrition, thanks to CRISPR technology.

A CRISPR gene-editing technique might have finally cracked the mystery of how death cap mushrooms kill and revealed a possible antidote

Flavor is a tricky target, but technology and powerful genetic techniques are making it more feasible to improve the taste of vegetables

The consumption of gene-edited pigs has been authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as German-style sausages, according to a report by NextGov. Gene editing [...]