Gene therapies began as proof-of-concept treatments for a handful of rare genetic disorders and now, with emerging tools, may ...

Invited 100, only 1 cameIn 2025, Osaka University's Graduate School of Medicine announced it would accept young researchers from the U.S. who were losing their footing due to policy shifts under the ...

Scientists are close to bringing animals back from extinction by using advances in genetics and DNA research. The process begins by collecting DNA from well-preserved remains and comparing it with the ...

"A virus created the human brain." I was initially wary, as this sounded like the kind of headline that would circulate for ...

The use of a precise gene editing technique to edit human embryos has caught the attention of academics and society, yet doubts over its safety and ethics remain. View on euronews ...

Chicago-based Syntax Bio believes it has cracked the code for turning stem cells into pancreatic beta cells in as little as ...

Researchers identified OMC1, an oocyte-specific protein that maintains chromosome cohesion throughout reproductive life, and ...

Over the past decades CRISPR, short for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”, has become somewhat of a household name, holding the promise of directly addressing ...

A UCLA-led team has described how it advanced an experimental CRISPR approach for sickle cell disease into a blood stem cell ...

Metabolic reprogramming shifts macrophages to a proinflammatory state to fight infections. Yasukura et al. found that the ...

A review examines how CRISPR-edited mesenchymal stromal cells could advance bone and cartilage repair while noting that ...

Despite this advance, conventional CRISPR-Cas9 systems may introduce potentially harmful DNA breaks and cannot easily be ...