In a significant leap forward for neuroscience, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have successfully ...

Keratin is the tough protein that forms hair, nails and hooves. It’s also responsible for something far stranger: human horns.

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

Most current approaches rely on adding nuclear localization signal (NLS) motifs to the ends of Cas9 to facilitate nuclear entry. However, this method is inefficient, and much of the Cas9 that is ...

A new scalable technique enables the generation of human kidney organoids by integrating them into perfused pig kidneys.

In a first for adults in Singapore, scientists are conducting gene editing trials on heart patients to correct defects at ...

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

But if you want to use CRISPR for gene therapy, you must first get the scissors, as well as a "guide" molecule that directs ...

Cathy Tie, who launched her first biotech in SF's IndieBio, now leads Manhattan Genomics in controversial push to edit human ...

Tiny viruses that only infect and kill bacteria can help treat deadly antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections with ...

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 ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified central routes that two deadly viruses take to invade human cells and have designed decoy molecules that block the ...