The creator of CRISPR babies is flirting again with infamy, this time through a mysterious alliance with an Internet-savvy ...

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained ...

Beam Therapeutics CEO John Evans warns against AI hype in drug development, drawing parallels to past CRISPR expectations, ...

These scents, now bottled by a new biotech perfume brand called Future Society, never touched the noses of anyone alive today ...

A study in the journal Nature explains how age reshapes the blood system. In both humans and mice, a few stem cells, or ...

The average American can expect to live about 77 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retro Biosciences, a longevity startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, aims to ...

Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell -- without damaging it. Researchers have made this groundbreaking discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, electron ...

President Trump reacted with fury to the ruling. “THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!” he ...

A gene editing drug custom-made for a critically ill baby showed that, for some ultra-rare diseases, it’s possible to design ...

After the wildfires in California last year, she had two-and-a-half liters of plasma removed from her body in an effort to filter out the toxins her body had accumulated from the low air quality (“You ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Inman Eats & Crafts is back, there's a Harvard Square Block ...

That is a paradox. Local government institutions in our country are still operating according to traditional administrative practices. These institutions, which should be established to provide ...