Movies have always played up the mad scientist trope, but real-life labs have carried out experiments that make fiction look ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned ...

The field of fish conservation is grappling with the complex challenges posed by human-modified landscapes. As habitats undergo rapid transformation due to ...

Beam Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAM), a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, today announced that the company will present updated safety and efficacy ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

David Fououhi has been installed as EPA deputy administrator under Administrator Lee Zeldin, himself a former Army intelligence officer and Republican congressman. Fououhi is a lawyer who has fought ...

To overcome this challenge, it will take farmers like me. We can’t fight in the court of law, but we can make our voices ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

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

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...