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 ...

For decades, Arieh Warshel, USC Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and a 2013 Nobel laureate, has used computer simulations ...

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

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

The science behind gene editing and its uses, good or bad, explored in some detail. Left me thinking of the impact when CRISPR meets AI and the potential chaos of their illegitimate children. The ...

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 ...

So, even via the more modest predictions, people will be able to double their longevity. When you reach 100 years old, you ...

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

Drug resistance has long turned some of the most advanced lung cancer therapies into temporary victories, with tumors learning to shrug off chemotherapy that once held them in check. A new wave of ...