Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

Nantucket High School and the Egan Maritime Institute will bring island students to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods ...

Researchers have identified molecular mechanisms behind age-related memory decline — and shown they can be reversed.

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the ...

Virginia Tech scientists found that age-related memory loss stems from molecular changes in the brain. Memory decline might not be just a natural part of aging. Researchers at Virginia Tech have ...

Pioneering research has repurposed a gene editing tool to help shed light on the true biodiversity present in natural environments. Pioneering research has repurposed a gene editing tool to help shed ...

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

An infant with a rare metabolic disease became the world’s first patient to be treated with a personalized CRISPR gene-editing treatment in a landmark study between Penn Medicine and the Children’s ...

On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is calling wooly mice, which have long fur reminiscent of the woolly mammoth.

Intellia Therapeutics said on Wednesday that the U. Food and Drug Administration has placed a clinical hold on its two ...