embryology

Columbia study finds gene editing in embryos effective but too risky for clinical use

A team of researchers led by Columbia University has demonstrated that base editing can modify genes in human embryos with remarkable precision, achieving 100% accuracy in some experiments, but the study published Wednesday in Nature also exposed a range of…

Cambridge team uses base editing to study gene function in human embryos for first time

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have used base editing for the first time to study gene function in human embryos, demonstrating that the NANOG gene is essential for the formation of pluripotent cells during the earliest days of development.…