Genetic testing is transforming healthcare through personalized medicine, enabling early diagnosis, targeted treatments, and a future of more precise, patient-centered care.
A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.
The Duke Reading Center, which specializes in the analysis of retinal images, collaborated with Sina Farsiu, professor in the departments of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering, to play a pivotal ...
Recent research has uncovered a fascinating mechanism in the nematode worm C. elegans that could have profound implications ...
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, ...
In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.
In experiments with cells in lab dishes and with mice, this type of "epigenetic engineering ... very similar genetic ...
A U.S. regulator reportedly plans to unveil a faster approach to approving custom gene-editing treatments for rare diseases.
Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...
As we enter entrepreneurship month this November, we’re celebrating the professors and alumni who are fueling job creation ...
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.
Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...