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 ...

Chloroplasts—the "light power plants" of plant cells—are increasingly the focus of synthetic biology. These organelles house ...

Adopt a calorie-controlled, nutrient-rich diet because while genes may predispose, excess calories magnify risk. Prioritise regular physical activity. Vigorous aerobic and resistance training can ...

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

Traditional breeding and genetic modification methods have struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of plant viruses. CRISPR/Cas systems, originally derived from bacterial immune responses, ...

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

Check out the Announcement Trailer for Adaptation, an early access survival horror game developed by RedLever. Players will explore an open world filled with enemy UFOs after crash landing in a forest ...

MIT and Harvard scientists have designed an advanced type of immune cell called a CAR-NK cell that can destroy cancer while avoiding attack from the body’s own immune defenses. This innovation could ...

A blight in the early 1900s nearly wiped out the American chestnut tree, once a staple food source and building material. Farmers are now planting blight-resistant hybrid chestnut trees in an effort ...