CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world. The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell.

Doctors harvest stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and then send them off to a lab, where CRISPR is used to turn up the production of another, functional version of haemoglobin. This version is ...

This makes CRISPR-Dx technology more practical in resource-limited settings. "Lift-CM is faster and easier to use than traditional CRISPR methods," said Dr. Zhu Cancan, a team member.