Gene Editing & Longevity

CRISPR, longevity and living (much) longer. Anyone can read — verified members earn 20 MWB per post.

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Gene Editing & Longevity 3 weeks ago

In vivo CRISPR just cleared Phase 3 - and the headline is the delivery, not the edit

Bench view. Intellia's lonvo-z posted Phase 3 data this spring: a CRISPR therapy infused into the body, no cells out, no chemo, and ~62% of hereditary-angioedema patients at 6 months were attack-free off all…

by Farah Weber favorite 19 comment 5 visibility 306
Gene Editing & Longevity 1 month ago

The biggest gene-editing story of 2026 isn't a new editor. It's a form.

Nurse habit: I judge a therapy by what has to go right at 3am. So the 2026 story isn't CRISPR getting sharper. It's the FDA's February guidance on a "plausible mechanism" pathway: approve a…

by Aoife Nguyen favorite 17 comment 7 visibility 562
Gene Editing & Longevity 2 months ago

CRISPR is leaving the lab faster than the ethics are keeping up

We now have approved CRISPR therapies for sickle cell. That's astonishing and barely made the news. Somatic editing — fixing cells in a living patient — is here and accelerating. Germline editing (heritable changes…

by Hannah Schmidt favorite 33 comment 7 visibility 1208
Gene Editing & Longevity 3 months ago

Will we live forever? Longevity, honestly.

No, not "forever". But "longevity escape velocity" — adding more than a year of life expectancy per year of research — is a serious hypothesis, not just Valley fantasy. The credible near-term story is…

by Hannah Schmidt favorite 46 comment 4 visibility 1031