Scientists have long believed that a universal genetic code serves as a blueprint for all life on Earth, dictating the structure and function of organisms from the simplest bacteria to complex humans.

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 ...

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

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

She had to fight for recognition after a male colleague took credit for her work in identifying an extra chromosome as the ...

The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

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

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs to live. But as far as how ribosomes themselves were formed, tantalizingly ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

A genetic study of canines living in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone separates myth from a potential breakthrough in understanding ...

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