Chemists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have found a new use for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), not just as ...

Here’s the latest company planning for gene-edited babies The news: A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create ...

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes ...

According to Bloomberg News, Vinay Prasad, who oversees gene therapies at the FDA, said the plans will be published in early November. He foresees the approach sparking curiosity for the next wave of ...

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

A new UTEP course called “Monster-ology” will connect science and literary analysis through different media to help students ...

In a stunning display of circular thinking, a leading science writer ends her paean to genetically engineering wild animals by writing: “Humans are the ones driving biodiversity loss of all species.

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

The cell therapy field has long held a transformative ambition: to create "off-the-shelf" treatments that can reach not just ...

Neanderthals could walk among us within 20 years — but would reviving our extinct cousin rewrite science or unleash an ...

Scientists are venturing into the realm of de-extinction, aiming to revive the woolly mammoth using advanced genetic ...

Advances in genome editing are transforming the treatment for rare genetic diseases, as seen in the case of seven-month-old ...