How to Use gene editing in a Sentence

gene editing

noun
  • Many questions still remain about using gene editing to lower cholesterol.
    — David Cox, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Pivot uses gene editing to keep the enzymes turned on and working at maximum volume.
    — Charlotte Hu, Time, 25 Mar. 2026
  • What is the future of gene editing with CRISPR?
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2026
  • And for details about Prime Medicine’s plans to seek approval for a gene editing treatment tested in two people, go here.
    — Elaine Chen, STAT, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In the new study, the team took to the lab and used CRISPR gene editing to disrupt pax6 gene function.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Muldoon’s case put more momentum, too, behind personalized gene editing in general.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Even in soybeans, a notoriously difficult crop to modify, the method achieved efficient gene editing with minimal tissue culture steps.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Knoepfler has long argued for a temporary moratorium on heritable human gene editing until ethical guidelines can be established.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 24 June 2026
  • So, the research team behind the new work deleted the equivalent region in a fish (the zebrafish) using the gene editing tool CRISPR.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This year, a Pennsylvania baby was the first human patient ever to undergo gene editing therapy to treat a life-threatening genetic disorder.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The first person to receive a personalized gene editing therapy, KJ is thriving and reaching developmental milestones.
    — Milly Dawson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Scientists and bioethicists have long raised concerns about the implications of CRISPR gene editing in human embryos.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 24 June 2026
  • But other cardiologists with no commercial stake in the technology are also captivated by the concept of using gene editing to deliver a one-time therapy to prevent people from accruing damaging levels of blood lipids.
    — David Cox, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Pig organs are similar enough in size and function to humans', but transplanting entire organs was completely out of reach until about a decade ago when scientists began mastering gene editing well enough to breed pigs whose organs are less likely to be rejected by the human immune system.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 3 May 2026
  • These treatments employ a gene editing technique called CRISPR that lets scientists alter DNA in a living organism.
    — Milly Dawson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The researchers received the feedback in a meeting with FDA reviewers to discuss a potential study of custom treatments using prime editors, a more complex and cumbersome gene editing technology that can treat a much wider range of genetic misspellings.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Intellia Therapeutics said Monday that a single dose of its gene editing treatment dramatically reduced swelling attacks in patients with a rare genetic disorder in a Phase 3 trial, setting up a potential approval.
    — Jason Mast, STAT, 27 Apr. 2026
  • As soon as that original article with my collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier was published in the summer of 2012, immediately there were many labs that started using it and testing it for gene editing in different systems.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • In the present study, the researchers used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to screen thousands of genes in mouse fat cells, or adipocytes, to see which ones might produce microproteins that influence fat cell growth (proliferation) and fat storage.
    — New Atlas, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The participants received varying doses of the CRISPR therapy, since the early Phase 1 trial was designed to primarily evaluate whether the gene editing was safe and provide hints about its potential effectiveness.
    — Alice Park, Time, 8 Nov. 2025
  • In August 2025, scientists were able to use the gene editing tool CRISPR to make wheat crops produce their own fertilizer, according to a study published in Plant Biotechnology Journal.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Led researchers at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the team used gene editing to create male-sterile flowers, enabling the robot to produce hybrid seeds efficiently.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Intellia Therapeutics — The gene editing company rallied almost 6% after Citizens JMP upgraded the stock to market outperform and hiked its price target to $33 on enthusiasm for its hereditary angioedema treatment trial.
    — Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But the students at Lambert High School in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, pushed ahead with their idea, using the gene editing technology CRISPR, and took it to the iGEM competition, a sort of science Olympics, in Paris.
    — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Last year, a team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania designed a therapy using CRISPR, the Nobel Prize-winning gene editing tool, to treat a baby born with a rare disease that causes ammonia to build up in the blood.
    — CNN Money, 23 Feb. 2026

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