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 ...

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 ...

After receiving the porcine organ in January, Tim Andrews lived with the kidney for 271 days, a world record, according to ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In Eli Sharabi’s first hours of freedom earlier this year, a social worker led him to a room stocked with shampoo, toothpaste, and soap. In Gaza’s tunnels, he ...

Genetic associations between cannabis use and many different traits could inform the development of prevention and treatment strategies for cannabis use disorders. The study uncovered new ...