From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...