All any parent wants is for their children to be happy and healthy. More than seven years ago, my husband and I received ...

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

The tetrahydrocannibinol (THC) products available these days are different from items that contained THC in the 1960s to ...

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

Scientists have demonstrated for the first time how Staphylococcus aureus—a leading cause of skin infections—reshapes the ...

The second man to receive a pig kidney transplant at Mass General Brigham had the kidney removed last week, officials confirmed Monday. Tim Andrews, of New Hampshire, set a world record — living with ...

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

Health should be taught in a comprehensive, sequential fashion so that each grade builds on previous knowledge starting in kindergarten, beginning with basic hygiene, e.g. handwas ...

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 ...

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical ...

One of Lamm’s most effective critics – Vincent Lynch, an expert on evolutionary genetics at the University at Buffalo – has been the target of all three forms of attack. Lamm denies responsibility for ...

A top US regulator plans to unveil a faster approach to approving custom gene-editing treatments, a move designed to unleash a wave of industry investment that will yield cures for patients with rare ...