Virginia Tech researchers have shown that memory loss in aging may be reversible. Using CRISPR tools, they corrected molecular disruptions in the hippocampus and amygdala, restoring memory in older ...

Cas9 gene editing and artificial intelligence to create compact tomato plants optimized for vertical farming in ...

Genetically modified organisms, also known as GMOs, have been a hot topic of conversation among researchers, producers, ...

We have written about the promise of gene therapy to correct genetic disease many times. An exciting development happened ...

Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned ...

The grantmaking organization Open Philanthropy has awarded funding for a University of California San Diego technology ...

A research team has successfully engineered a japonica rice variety using CRISPR/Cas9 to simultaneously optimize plant ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin now have developed an improved method of gene editing that is precise, more ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have now developed an improved method of gene editing that is precise, more ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated cardiomyopathy) and muscle weakness (muscular dystrophies). Many of these diseases ...

Scientists report the first therapy to slow the deadly brain disease. A one-time gene therapy treatment has shown remarkable success in slowing the progression of Huntington's disease in a preliminary ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing experiments. The technology, CRISPR-GPT, acts as a gene-editing "copilot" ...