A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes ...

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 ...

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

A lthough still in its early days, CRISPR has already been called the most powerful scientific tool of the century. Using ...

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

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

CRISPR’s gene-editing technology inspires Louis Gale to blur the lines between science and philosophy in his latest novel. “The idea of human evolution has intrigued scientists from the very beginning ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua Modell of ...

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell speaks to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman about the slumping Trump economy, the effects of another Trump-GOP government shutdown, and the bizarre story about ...