Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

New scientific article warns of loss of consumer trust unless proper analysis is done. Report: Claire Robinson ...

Knowing who to trust in the world of wellness has become even more complicated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services. RFK Jr. is not a medical ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

A large biobanking effort captures genetic and health data from half a million people in Taiwan, widening the diversity of ...

The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now ...

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

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 ...