11/30/2025: Polymarket; CRISPR Kids; Lamine Yamal

First, Polymarket lets you bet on almost anything. Then, a look at teens' innovative Lyme disease research. And, Lamine Yamal: The 60 Minutes Interview.

• Nov 30, 2025
• 43:02

Teens' innovative Lyme disease research

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.

• Nov 30, 2025
• 13:10

Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.

• Nov 30, 2025

The role genetically engineered mice could play in fighting Lyme disease

Scientists are hoping to use genetic engineering to reduce the transmission of Lyme disease. The scientists' target is not the deer or the ticks often associated with the disease; it's wild mice.

• Sep 21, 2025

Genetically engineered mice could curb spread of Lyme disease on Nantucket

Scientists hope genetically modified mice will curb the spread of Lyme disease. They headed to Nantucket — home to a large population of the mice, ticks and deer spreading Lyme — to pitch their idea.

• Sep 21, 2025

The 2020s in health: Universal flu vaccine, AI

In our series The 2020s, we’re exploring the big topics that will dominate the conversation in the next decade. Dr. Jon LaPook joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the 2020s in health, from a universal flu vaccine to artificial intelligence detecting diseases.

• Dec 30, 2019
• 03:58

CRISPR: Revolutionizing biomedicine

A new tool could be the key to treating genetic diseases and may be the most consequential discovery in biomedicine this century. Bill Whitaker reports.

• Apr 29, 2018
• 14:48

Using gene-editing to treat diseases

60 Minutes reports on CRISPR, the gene-editing tool that's revolutionizing biomedical research; Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT

• Apr 26, 2018
• 00:37

"Obligated" to prevent disease with CRISPR?

OB/GYN Dr. Paula Amato says she feels a moral imperative to research using CRISPR to prevent disease

• Apr 29, 2018
• 01:42

Use CRISPR for treatment, not prevention?

Eric Lander argues that using the gene-editing tool on embryos to prevent disease is dangerous

• Apr 29, 2018
• 01:25

New therapy helps baby with rare disorder

For the first time in history, doctors have successfully used custom-made gene therapy to treat a baby born with a rare genetic disorder. Dr. Peter Marks, a physician-scientist who wrote an editorial accompanying the research paper on this case, joins CBS News to unpack the significance of the treatment.

• May 19, 2025
• 04:17

New gene therapy treats baby in medical first

The life of a baby with a rare genetic disorder has been saved with a groundbreaking new treatment. That baby had a genetic mutation that would have caused a lifetime of severe health problems, but doctors were able to edit out the mutation. Dr. Jon LaPook has details.

• May 15, 2025
• 03:09

"Colossal woolly mouse" created in effort to reconstruct the woolly mammoth

Colossal Biosciences has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically "engineer them into living animals," said CEO Ben Lamm.

• Mar 6, 2025

Scientists test cutting HIV out of cells

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam say they are getting closer to combating HIV by separating the virus from infected cells using CRISPR gene-editing technology. Dr. Jonathan Stoye, a virus expert at the Francis Crick Institute, joins CBS News with a look at the medical advance.

• Mar 25, 2024
• 02:17

New sickle cell treatment has roots at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

CHOP pioneered a gene therapy that's already helping patients who have sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder.

• Dec 14, 2023

Possible breakthrough for sickle cell disease

The FDA is set to decide Friday on a gene editing technique for patients with sickle cell disease. It would be the first use of CRISPR in the United States to treat a disease. CBS News' chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook has more.

• Dec 8, 2023
• 05:36

Gene-editing treatment for sickle cell

The Food and Drug Administration is set to vote on the use of gene-editing technology to potentially cure sickle cell disease, the painful genetic blood disorder that affects hundreds of thousands of Black, Hispanic, Asian and Middle Eastern Americans. Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell, medical director at Saint Mary's Urgent Care Group, joined CBS News to discuss the treatment.

• Dec 7, 2023
• 04:12

World's first gene therapy for sickle cell and thalassemia approved in U.K.

The first gene therapy​ treatment for sickle cell disease has been approved in the U.K.​, a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the disease.

• Nov 16, 2023

Study shows how gene editing can bring extinct rats back to life

Scientists used brown rats as the modern reference species, and found they could reconstruct 95 percent of the Christmas Island rat genome.

• Mar 10, 2022

Repairing genes in embryos

Scientists in the U.S. have successfully repaired a faulty gene in human embryos for the first time. Researchers used the powerful technology known as CRISPR to fix the DNA mutation that causes an inherited form of heart disease. Seventy-two percent of the resulting embryos were disease-free. Dr. David Agus joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss its potential and ethical concerns.

• Aug 3, 2017
• 03:35

CRISPR could help rid of diseases like cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and even HIV and cancer

CRISPR could help rid of diseases like cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and even HIV and cancer. But many scientists, including Jennifer Doudna who is credited with developing the gene-editing technology, are calling for a moratorium on its use. Only on “CBS This Morning,” Doudna tells Norah O'Donnell why, for all its promise, CRISPR is surrounded by controversy.

• Nov 30, 2015
• 06:56

CRISPR, The Gates Scholars, Seaweed

Bill Whitaker reports on CRISPR, the gene-editing tool revolutionizing biomedical research; then, why Bill and Melinda Gates put 20,000 students through college; and, seaweed farming and its surprising benefits

• Apr 29, 2018
• 43:39

"The Code Breaker": How CRISPR may revolutionize mankind

Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the gene-editing technique which has the potential to cure diseases caused by genetic mutations, and Walter Isaacson, author of "The Code Breaker," talk about the promise of the biotech revolution.

• Mar 7, 2021

Book excerpt: Walter Isaacson's "The Code Breaker"

The latest book from the bestselling biographer of geniuses from da Vinci and Franklin to Einstein and Jobs tells the story of Jennifer Doudna and the creation (and moral questioning) of the gene-editing technology CRISPR.

• Mar 5, 2021

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to two women

Thanks to a gene-editing tool they discovered, clinical trials of new cancer therapies are now underway.

• Oct 7, 2020

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