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

After a rich political harvest in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Coimbatore on Nov 19 to inaugurate the South ...

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 ...

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One of the most influential figures in modern epidemiology, Professor George Davey Smith from the University of Bristol, has ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

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

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

Sam Altman and his husband have reportedly invested in a gene-editing startup which aims to eliminate hereditary diseases ...

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 ...