Germline gene therapy: Safety Date: June 3, 2019 Source: Oregon Health & Science University Summary: An internationally known embryologist and his son make the case for using gene-editing tools to ...

Rather than changing genes in a grown adult, germline gene therapy hopes to nip inheritable diseases at the earliest stages of conception. By editing the genetic makeup of the egg, sperm, or ...

Germline gene therapy and somatic gene therapy are two quite different proposals, and the legitimate concerns and risks of the former should not be used to stall progress on the latter. The ...

Following worldwide news coverage of his father's gene-repair discovery in 2017, the topic of germline gene therapy came up in classroom discussions, including his advanced placement biology class.

Gene therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, ... or cells of the germline (such as sperm cells, ova, and their stem cell precursors).

Gene therapy to treat genetic disease in adults has shown some success. But previous attempts to modify sperm for ‘germline’ therapy – in which modifications are passed to offspring ...

Leaders in the gene therapy community have co-signed a letter to Alex Azar, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, urging a “binding global moratorium” on germline editing.

The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine released a statement Tuesday by its Gene Editing Task Force, signed by 13 companies, listing five of what they called key principles for ethical use of gene ...

Somatic gene therapy. Unlike germline therapy, somatic gene therapy involves the insertion of therapeutic DNA into body cells, rather than germ cells or gametes.

In the first part of this series, we explored how early genetic screening and gene therapy transform the lives of newborns and their families. Now, we’re taking an even earlier step: treating ...

In a future when gene therapy can tweak a person’s genome precisely enough to cure them of severe disease, treating earlier will often be better—and the womb is as early as it gets. Last week ...