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

The Duke Reading Center, which specializes in the analysis of retinal images, collaborated with Sina Farsiu, professor in the departments of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering, to play a pivotal ...

Scientists at the University of Sheffield are conducting research into natural genetic engineering with a focus on Lateral Gene Transfer to help improve crop resilience to extreme weather.

Synthetic biology is ready for the next developmental milestone and America’s leadership depends on getting the financing right.

diSArm clinical trial is that our phages injected intravenously can home in to the site of infection, penetrate biofilms, infect, and lyse S. aureus. Many deaths post flu, and most likely also ...

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

After his company, Colossal Biosciences, successfully revived the dire wolf from extinction, he's ready to continue to change ...

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

In experiments with cells in lab dishes and with mice, this type of "epigenetic engineering ... the other two being DNA and ...

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

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 ...