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

CRISPR technology could one day create “designer babies, ” raising major ethical and social inequality concerns.

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

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...