We're living in a moment where science fiction is becoming medical reality. Imagine a world where doctors can simply rewrite ...

Because it requires so little to produce, the new strain could help bring more flavorful, environmentally friendly meat ...

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true ...

A historic pandemic continues to rage, and it isn’t getting the attention it deserves given the virus’s toll. The outbreak in this case isn’t COVID-19, but a vicious iteration of the avian flu. But ...

Scientists grew a microscopic fungus into a more efficient — and meat-like — edible protein by tweaking just two genes with ...

CRISPR, the gene-editing technology which won its creators the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is most well-known for its ...

Many genetic diseases are caused by diverse mutations spread across an entire gene, and designing genome editing approaches for each patient's mutation would be impractical and costly. Many genetic ...

CRISPR-modified poplar trees and wild poplar trees grow in a greenhouse at North Carolina State University. (Chenmin Yang, NC State) (CN) — Researchers are using the revolutionary gene-editing ...

CRISPR-modified animals are even being marketed for sale as pets. “It's allowed us to consider a whole raft of projects we couldn't before,” says Bruce Whitelaw, an animal biotechnologist at the ...

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers are improving non-invasive treatment options for degenerative disc disease, an ailment that impacts 3 million adults yearly in the U.S., according to the ...