In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

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

Historically, turning invisible was considered the stuff of wizardry and spells. More recently, physicists have also looked ...

Traditional breeding and genetic modification methods have struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of plant viruses. CRISPR/Cas systems, originally derived from bacterial immune responses, ...

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

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Over the past several months, a small number of patients have received genetically modified pig kidneys. Three of the four procedures were performed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston.

CAR T cells are patient-derived, genetically engineered immune cells. They are "living drugs" and constitute a milestone in modern medicine. Equipping T cells, a key cell type of the immune system, ...

HHMI Janelia Research Campus Senior Group Leader Meng Wang and her team study longevity. They've shown that by overexpressing an enzyme in the lysosomes of the roundworm C. elegans, they can extend ...

Scientists from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have used CRISPR screens to identify genetic modifications that influence T cell function and survival in cultures and ...

The bold question-askers at What If investigate what would happen if genetically modified people became the norm. 65-year-old furloughed by government shutdown: 'I could lose the house. I could lose ...