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, ...

In many cells of the human body, hair-like protrusions known as cilia act as antennae, allowing cells to receive signals from ...

After Intellia Therapeutics paused a pair of phase 3 trials for its CRISPR therapy in response to a liver safety signal, the ...

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

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the ...

Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH) that had carried out the operation. On January ...

As flu season approaches and public health officials roll out their annual push for vaccination, Allen Institute scientists ...

Xenotransplantation is the fusion energy of medicine. As the well-worn joke goes, it is the future—and always will be. But ...

Emerging genetics research could help brands create mainstream wheat products that are safer for gluten-sensitive consumers – ...

In a separate 2024 study, researchers also made mice temporarily transparent. The study, published in Science, showed that ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...