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 ...

The results are in, and we finally know what happens to human cells exposed to 5G signals. In a sealed experiment at ...

Genetic scientists have spliced human DNA into mice, resulting in rodents with increased brain mass, offering new clues to ...

complex ethics of genetic engineering, including safety, social justice, and regulation, to understand how this technology ...

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 ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters.

A US infant with a rare condition has become history's first patient to be treated with a personalized gene-editing technique that raises hopes for other people with obscure illnesses, doctors ...

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.