Nadine and David Lipworth have devoted their lives to finding treatment that will restore the daughter they knew.

Unlike computer code that sits on a device and does what it's told, lab-engineered genes can multiply on their own. While ...

Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated with illnesses such as sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis. The most ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Few areas of medicine generate as much fascination, hope, hype, and confusion as genetics. Just over two decades ago, ...

The AI conversation is still too narrowly framed. Most debates assume intelligence is fundamentally computational, that ...

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...

Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

Gene editing has delivered remarkable results against sickle cell disease. Now researchers are working to make these ...

Jason Chin, founder and CSO of Constructive Bio, and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair ...