Recognized in the Biotechnology category of the 2025 Top Innovations contest, small Cas12l nucleases are versatile, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the treatment 'a powerful glimpse into the future of personalized medicine' ...