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 ...

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.

Korro Bio saw its stock reach all-time lows on disappointing data for its lead pipeline candidate, while Intellia Therapeutics saw analyst downgrades on safety concerns despite releasing positive data ...

The UN-endorsed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presents a shared roadmap for peace and prosperity for people today, ...

Portable genetic sequencers used around the world to sequence DNA have critical, previously unreported security ...

Perinatal stem cells, including those derived from umbilical cord blood and tissue, amniotic fluid, amniotic membrane, and ...

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, ...

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize ...

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