Sitting in my doctor's examination room, I was surprised when she told me, "Genetics don't really matter for chronic disease.

The northern white rhinoceros is one of the rarest animals on Earth, with just two females left and no natural way for the ...

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

A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of ...

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other ...

KJ Muldoon became the first patient to undergo personalized CRISPR treatment, a therapy that found the one uniquely mutated gene out of 20,000 in his little body, and fixed it.

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

In a world first, scientists used CRISPR to fix a baby's unique genetic mutation. The report offers hope for personalized ...

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