The long-awaited Gene Technology Bill has stalled because New Zealand First won’t support it as it stands. The sticking point ...

Explore CRISPR technology explained, gene editing science, DNA modification, and genetic engineering ethics—discover how ...

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

How they’re doing it: The new company, called Preventive, is being formed to research so-called “heritable genome editing,” ...

The grantmaking organization Open Philanthropy has awarded funding for a University of California San Diego technology ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

Picture luxuriating at a waterfront restaurant decked out in fishing nets, oars and shrimping boat pictures, where servers wear shirts featuring some variation of, “We catch it, you eat it!” If you ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

Clinicians and researchers continue to address unproven and debunked claims about the origins of autism — most notably that vaccines and prenatal acetaminophen use may increase the risk for the ...

Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a versatile and non-toxic technology for controlling the activity of any gene in a cell. Such "gene-switch" tools allow scientists to "turn on" ...

We have written about the promise of gene therapy to correct genetic disease many times. An exciting development happened ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...