CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a natural defense system in bacteria that scientists have adapted into a powerful gene-editing tool. This ...

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

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 ...

Chocolate prices have been rising due to complications in the supply chain, but Penn State researchers have made a ...

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

Vinay Prasad told Bloomberg that the FDA is going to be “extremely flexible” regarding gene editing therapies.

In many cells of the human body, hair-like protrusions known as cilia act as antennae, allowing cells to receive signals from ...

Martin Kampmann’s work, supported by the National Institutes of Science (NIH), maps cellular “decision points” that determine ...

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

Intellia Therapeutics is a gene editing company focused on the development of Crispr/Cas9-based therapeutics. Intellia's technology platform specializes in Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short ...

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited ...

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