From rare diseases to chronic conditions, epigenetic editing unlocks new ways to control gene activity without altering the genetic code.

The code of life is now editable and the question humanity must answer in the 2020s is not whether we can rewrite it—but whether we should, and for whom.

For years, many families have believed that a child’s intelligence is inherited from the mother, a claim often repeated in ...

A Philadelphia-area infant named Baby KJ made international headlines after doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine successfully treated his rare, life-threatening liver ...

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

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

Flashpoint Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering a new class of structural nanomedicines, today congratulates its scientific co-founder, Professor Chad A. Mirkin, on being awarded the ...

A recent study in the journal PNAS from the lab of Julie Overbaugh reveals a previously unknown antiviral function of a gene ...

Bispecific antibodies bring multiple tumor-cell-killing mechanisms into play simultaneously. When a T cell is activated and ...

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

Biomaterials have evolved from passive structural scaffolds to active intelligent systems that dynamically interact with the biological environment. Recent ...

The problem, Zaaijer explained, is that algorithms used in precision medicine models overwhelming are built on DNA with ...