Nadine and David Lipworth have devoted their lives to finding treatment that will restore the daughter they knew.

Unlike computer code that sits on a device and does what it's told, lab-engineered genes can multiply on their own. While ...

Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated with illnesses such as sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis. The most ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

The AI conversation is still too narrowly framed. Most debates assume intelligence is fundamentally computational, that ...

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...

Gene editing has delivered remarkable results against sickle cell disease. Now researchers are working to make these ...

Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

Few areas of medicine generate as much fascination, hope, hype, and confusion as genetics. Just over two decades ago, ...

Having the right conditions and raw material for life does not mean that life can originate or arise by chance.

Jason Chin, founder and CSO of Constructive Bio, and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...