The separate fresh produce section at the bottom of every refrigerator is not just an aesthetic choice but a designed ...

CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a revolutionary gene-editing tool originally discovered as a bacterial defence mechanism. Scientists have repurposed it ...

Scientists had tried to treat diseases by editing genes since the 1990s, but the methods were cumbersome and didn’t pay off. Then in June 2012, the journal Science published a paper by two future ...

Research scientists have to be able to manipulate molecules in cells to learn more about their function, what goes wrong in disease, and how we might be able to fix it. The ability to change or halt ...

The FDA late last week set for December a groundbreaking decision on whether to grant its first-ever approval for a CRISPR-Cas9 gene-edited therapy—but the milestone so far doesn’t seem to be wowing ...