One of the most commonly used gene-delivery methods relies on engineered viruses to insert stretches of genetic material into ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

The slice of code — a stretch of DNA that acts like a dial to turn up the expression of certain genes — expanded the outer ...

Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme ...

The gene editor -- called evoCAST -- goes a long way toward solving a problem that has confounded the development of gene therapies from the field's beginnings: How to add long stretches of DNA to ...

Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two ...

Ask scientists which gene-editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they'd probably describe a system that's ...

A new gene editor takes advantage of CRISPR-associated proteins to insert whole genes into the genome, scientists report.

For the first time, an international study has deciphered the genome of the population of Brazil. Published in the journal ...

Ask scientists what gene editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they'd probably describe a system that's now close to realization in the labs of Samuel Sternberg at Columbia ...

Only two female northern white rhinos exist — learn how their genome could help bring the species back.

Researchers have completed the full genome of the northern white rhinoceros, aiding efforts to rescue the functionally ...