CRISPR — short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — is a method of genetic editing that uses RNA ...

The dodo is one step closer to being resurrected thanks to a remarkable new genetic engineering experiment. Scientists have ...

Rogue DNA rings known as ecDNA may hold the key to cracking glioblastoma’s deadly resilience. Emerging before tumors even ...

Researchers in Berlin have used base editing to repair mutations that cause the kidney disorder ADPKD in cells from both mice ...

New findings from the humble pigeon may help in an ambitious project to bring back the dodo, an extinct flightless bird, ...

Extinction is supposed to be permanent. But Colossal Biosciences, a Texas startup bent on reviving long-lost species through genetic engineering, has other ideas. The company says it has taken a ...

Also, there’s still no easy way to test AI designs of larger genomes. While some viruses can ‘boot up’ just from a DNA strand ...

A CRISPR mouth-swab test could transform TB screening with rapid, low-cost detection in low-resource and asymptomatic cases.

Disease-resistant pigs, faster-growing fish and heat-tolerant cows are among a new class of animals that are being ...

MIT researchers have dramatically lowered the error rate of prime editing, a genome-editing technique based on CRISPR. This advance could make it easier to develop gene therapy treatments for a ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing ...