Rob Stein

Scientists are racing to create a vaccine to protect people against the new strain of the coronavirus. But while researchers are making fast progress, a vaccine is probably more than a year away.

Doctors used CRISPR to edit genes of cells inside a patient's eye, hoping to restore vision to a person blinded by a rare genetic disorder. A similar strategy might work for some brain diseases.

More and more cases are being diagnosed in this country. And those numbers may grow as testing for this dangerous new virus ramps up.

The U.S. government says it has resolved a problem with its test for the new coronavirus, which should resolve a testing bottleneck and provide a powerful tool for slowing its spread in the U.S.

A problem with one ingredient in test kits that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention distributed to labs around the U.S. had created a frustrating bottleneck.

During a news conference, the president struck a reassuring tone — saying it's not inevitable the virus will spread in the U.S. That's despite warnings to the contrary from public health officials.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging Americans to prepare for the possibility of more aggressive measures to stop the new coronavirus in the United States.

Scientists at a National Institutes of Health lab are in a hurry to develop a vaccine to protect people against the new coronavirus. They are trying to do it in record time.

A New Orleans law professor and a New Jersey financial analyst are waiting for their stints in the first federal quarantine in a half-century to end. Here's glimpse of their daily lives.

Hundreds of American travelers returned from Wuhan, China and are now under federal quarantine for two weeks. Some are happy to be back in the U.S., but wish they weren't confined in military bases.

What's it like to be among the hundreds of people being quarantined at military bases around the United States after being evacuated from the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China?

A temporary ban prevents anyone from China from entering the U.S., and Americans who may have been exposed to the coronavirus are subject to quarantine. Experts differ in their views on the policies.

The U.S. CDC announced the drastic step of quarantining 195 Americans who were evacuated back to the United States from Wuhan, the epicenter city of the coronavirus outbreak in China.

Health officials announced that a second person in the United States is infected with the dangerous new coronavirus and that 50 more possible cases in the U.S. are under investigation.

Aiming to find a cheaper, easier way than IVF to ensure human embryos are healthy before implantation, researchers paid women to be inseminated, then flushed the embryos from their wombs for analysis.

Chinese scientist He Jiankui has been sentenced to three years in prison for conducting gene-editing experiments on human embryos.

NPR tells the exclusive, behind-the-scenes story of the first person with a genetic disorder to be treated in the United States with the revolutionary gene-editing technique CRISPR.

Scientists report progress using gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease, a common and devastating genetic blood disorder.

Scientists are reporting the first evidence that genetically edited cells could be safely helping a patient with sickle cell disease. The cells are producing a crucial oxygen-carrying protein.

Researchers edited the DNA in bone marrow cells taken from a Mississippi woman with sickle cell disease to produce a treatment that could alleviate the excruciating effects of her inherited illness.