He Jiankui stands by a controversial research approach that landed him in prison as he aims to tackle Alzheimer’s disease.

Recently, they have achieved a medical milestone. Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of ...

Researchers are using gene editing techniques to introduce beneficial traits like polled and disease resistance, as well as ...

Congenital hearing loss refers to impaired auditory function that occurs due to genetic causes. GJB2 is the gene responsible ...

An animal geneticist at the University of California-Davis told Kansas cattle producers recently that a gene editing ...

They have recently unveiled their genetically modified creations known as 'woolly mice', mice that have been engineered to exhibit traits reminiscent of the long-extinct woolly mammoth. This article ...

Currently, these technologies are subject to the EU’s strict GMO regulation, making their commercialisation in the bloc ...

Although cystic fibrosis is a single gene mutation, there are more than 1,000 different ways the CFTR gene can mutate in ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into ...