Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.
The 2025 International Summit on Human Genome Editing called for: • A moratorium on heritable edits until safety and societal consensus are achieved Meanwhile, patients with devastating genetic ...
DNA synthesis is going global. The biosecurity rules aren’t keeping up.
When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...
One therapy wey pipo bin once reason as achievement for science fiction don reverse aggressive and incurable blood cancers ...
A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers ...
Scientists at UCL and GOSH have used groundbreaking base-edited CAR‑T cell therapy — BE‑CAR7 — to treat aggressive T‑cell ...
It’s been hypothesized for decades that life on Earth may not have been as “homegrown” as one might think and now, we’re ...
Researchers from ETH Zurich have succeeded in introducing large quantities of unnatural amino acids into bacteria, enabling ...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The authors' approach to use genetic code expansion to tag two ALS proteins associated with stress granules has ...
A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers ...
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 ...