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 ...

As language models learn to interpret words in a sentence, protein language models learn how amino acids work together within ...

As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects ...

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

Access to ERS Genomics’ foundational CRISPR/Cas9 patent portfolio expands our genetic engineering toolkit and strengthens our ability to speed up and optimize strain development across Dyadic’s ...

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.

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

How is it possible to build new forms of life, like bacteria that glow in the dark or yeast that smells like bananas? In this ...

Merck & Co. has agreed to acquire Cidara Therapeutics for approximately $9.2 billion, the companies said, in a deal designed to bolster the buyer’s antiviral portfolio with a Phase III drug designed ...

While the exact causes of neurodegenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia are still largely unknown, ...

Kevin Fitzgerald, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ chief scientific officer, reveals the hard times that led to RNAi success, and what it takes to pave new roads in biotech.

An Essex couple have become first to heat their home using a data centre stacked with computers in their garden shed ...