Cincinnati Children's today celebrated the opening of a new state-of-art facility for its Applied Gene and Cell Therapy Center, which will enable the health system to increase clinical trials of ...

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 ...

Fred Hutch bioengineer Dr. Matthias Stephan is working to develop a special foam that could help make gene therapy for blood ...

Advances being used to treat cancer are now being applied to lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other disorders.

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband are now backing a contentious new venture that intends to use genetic engineering on babies to eliminate inherited diseases. The start-up, Preventive, ...

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In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...

Following the vote at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, members have rejected a moratorium on genetic engineering of wild species (Motion 133) and adopted the IUCN Policy on Synthetic Biology ...