John L. Hennessy is President Emeritus of Stanford University as well as the James F. and Mary Lynn Gibbons Professor of ...

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

A lthough still in its early days, CRISPR has already been called the most powerful scientific tool of the century. Using ...

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

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What scientific knowledge is and is not presumed in legal reasoning, and what are the differences between what is and what is ...

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ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a natural defense system in bacteria that scientists have adapted into a powerful gene-editing tool. This ...