Bacteria fend off invading viruses with molecular scissors that slice up viral DNA—a system called CRISPR that's become ...

Researchers are combining artificial intelligence with next-generation CRISPR systems to improve precision, safety, and speed in gene editing. New tools include Stanford’s CRISPR-GPT for experiment ...

Ming, Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) at The Hong Kong University of Science and ...

Prospective parents can now pick embryos based on risk predictions for thousands of diseases and odds for specific traits.

It is natural to wonder whether the world is on the cusp of a nightmarish age of AI -enabled bioterrorism—and, if so, what ...

Genome editing is revolutionizing the medical landscape by offering new therapeutic possibilities for genetic diseases, which collectively affect hundreds ...

The future of medicine is being quietly built in a Perth lab by biotech Syngenis that has amassed an all-star group of ...

Scientists have taken an important step toward a gene therapy that could one day turn off the extra genetic material that causes Down syndrome (DS). Down syndrome is a genetic condition caused by an ...

A new method for safely inserting large chunks of DNA into genomes has now measured up in mice, potentially paving the way for the next generation of gene editing medicines. The approach, which is ...

I was born in Washington, DC, in 1964, the oldest of three sisters, but the place that truly formed me as a scientist was Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Growing up there, far from the mainland ...