A wave of epigenetic therapies is offering hope as ways to cure chronic hepatitis B — a lingering liver infection that is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and affects more than 250 million people around the world. Currently available drugs often fail to eradicate the virus from the body. Gene-editing therapies — which
Physicist Stephen Hawking lived with motor neuron disease for longer than any other person known.Credit: Santi Visalli/Getty A man with an uncommon type of motor neuron disease experienced improved symptoms and continued to work as a physician a year after becoming the first person to receive a drug designed to target the specific genetic mutation
Xinhua Hospital in Shanghai, China, hosted one of the gene-therapy trials that led to the death of a child last year.Credit: Costfoto/Sipa USA/Alamy The deaths of two children in separate gene-editing trials in China raise serious questions about oversight and could have a profound effect on the country’s biomedical industry, say researchers, ethicists and legal
You have full access to this article through your institution. The Roslin Institute team was overwhelmed by media requests about Dolly.Credit: Colin McPherson/Corbis/Getty Taxidermied, encased behind plexiglass and slowly spinning on a wooden dais at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, UK, the world’s most famous sheep remains a public spectacle three decades after
