Gene therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis have evolved slowly, but one is ready to move into human trials and an ...

Liposuction and plastic surgery aren't often mentioned in the same breath as cancer. But they are the inspiration for a new approach to treating cancer that uses engineered fat cells to deprive tumors ...

Bioengineering Professor Kiana Aran is one of three inaugural winners of the Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature. She ...

Argentina has bred five genetically edited horses, aiming to surpass its famous mare Polo Pureza in speed. Using the CRISPR-Cas9 technique, Argentine biotech firm Kheiron produced these super ponies, ...

Akribion Therapeutics emerges from stealth with €8 million in seed funding to develop a novel cancer RNA-guided approach ...

CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, has been hailed as a revolutionary tool in ...

Stanford researchers introduced affordable gene-editing kits ready for the classroom, aiming to make the field more accessible for high school students.

The concept of biological reproduction between same-sex individuals in mammals has always been deemed impossible. However, ...

By creating gene editors not found in nature, or optimizing existing editors, AI can improve the accuracy, effectiveness, and accessibility of gene editing.

The research shows that as long as essential genes remain intact, our genomes can tolerate significant structural changes, ...

Complementary discoveries have the potential to enhance treatment options for antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers at ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.