Programmable CRISPR tools are turning stem cell biology into something closer to software engineering, shrinking ...

Liquid biopsy is increasingly recognized as a promising tool for cancer detection and treatment monitoring, yet its ...

This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

Preliminary results from two trials of the gene therapy exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) suggest the therapy offers an effective cure for beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease in children younger ...

A rare disease mom and scientist shares on the "First Opinion Podcast" how she serves as a translator between her two ...

Comparing the genomes of snakes with distinct coloration patterns pinpointed the genetic variants that contribute to these ...

For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their ...

The tests have not been approved by federal regulators, but that hasn’t stopped patients from wanting them — and doctors from worrying.

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

Billionaire Elon Musk is signaling that artificial intelligence and robotics could eliminate the need to work in the next few decades. Musk attended the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum and was asked on a ...