Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a Silicon Valley startup, involves a couple with a genetic abnormality who want to ...

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While it was welcomed by advocates as a way of helping farmers make their plants hardier and yields higher, it was also met with concern from some who say it could threaten trade opportunities and cau ...

It’s not often that a news story unsettles me in the way one I spotted in this very newspaper last week has done. Apparently, ...

GATC brought together a broad coalition of researchers and executives in cell and gene therapy, gene editing, drug discovery and AI as well as patients and advocates.

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As the global population grows, producing enough food for everyone has become one of the biggest challenges in agriculture.

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Profluent Bio announced a research collaboration with the Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT) to design novel base editors to ...

RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gene activity in an animal that died nearly ...