Gene therapy could be a permanent cure for many life-threatening hereditary diseases, and this will only help in the treatment of genetic diseases and cancer ...

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

Biotech startup CrisprBits uses CRISPR-based techniques to change the shape of diagnostics by decoding genetic sequencing ...

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

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

A cutting-edge therapy using base-edited immune cells is offering a major breakthrough for patients with one of the toughest ...

Discover how scientists engineered goldenberry plants to grow 35% shorter than usual, making them suitable for large-scale ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...

To the research team working to save him, KJ Muldoon was first known only as Patient Eta. But within months, KJ’s name — and ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...