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

CRISPR technology could one day create “designer babies, ” raising major ethical and social inequality concerns.

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, ...

The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

An international team led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientist has created a first-of-its-kind resource ...

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

Abstract: Scientific research organizations increasingly need effective, scalable, and collaborative platforms to handle research operations. This research work introduces an innovative information ...

MIT and Harvard scientists have designed an advanced type of immune cell called a CAR-NK cell that can destroy cancer while avoiding attack from the body’s own immune defenses. This innovation could ...