A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child ...

For the first time, scientists have grown functional, brain-like tissue without using any animal-derived materials or added biological coatings. The development opens the door to more controlled and ...

Pluristyx's platform technology was developed specifically to overcome this challenge. This Breakthrough T1D collaboration will fund the use of precise gene editing to engineer Pluristyx's exclusively ...

UCR scientists create a fully synthetic model for growing brain cells that could allow for animal-free drug testing.

By adding a microRNA molecule to ALS models, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University and Weizmann Institute researchers ...

New discoveries are showing how genetic variations can affect our health, from disease risks to how we respond to medicines. Understanding the genetics of animals, plants, and microbes helps us see ...

In a successful transplant in a man with brain death, scientists prevented the immune system from attacking a genetically ...

Research institutions around the world house valuable genetic information that could help unlock countless medical mysteries.

For more than a century, we’ve treated the brain like a bustling high-rise office. The neurons act as the high-powered ...

Diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1), the rate-limiting enzyme in triacylglycerol (TAG) biosynthesis, is a crucial ...

In November 2005, Alex Simpson was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Her diagnosis wasn’t good. At first, everything seemed fine – ...

Aranyak Goswami, an assistant professor of computational biology, will talk Wednesday about decoding the gut-brain connection to neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, autism and schizophrenia ...