Scientists are using CRISPR to fast-track the domestication of a wild fruit. For roughly 10,000 years, farming communities ...

CRISPR biosensors enable real-time health monitoring with attomolar sensitivity, wearable integration, and multiplex ...

Scientists have used CRISPR technology to bring back a long-lost gene that could be used to prevent gout and certain types of liver disease.

Researchers have used CRISPR to switch back on a gene that vanished from the human lineage roughly 20 million years ago, ...

Imagine if you could fix a spelling mistake in a long document with just one click. Now, imagine doing the same with the genetic code of a plant or even a human cell. That’s ...

Every major pharmaceutical breakthrough in the past 40 years started with taxpayer-funded basic research: mRNA vaccines, ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

We're living in a moment where science fiction is becoming medical reality. Imagine a world where doctors can simply rewrite ...

Bacteria use a short RNA guide to detect viruses and activate a self-destruct mechanism that protects the wider microbial ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing ...

Researchers used miniature human brains grown in the lab to uncover why certain genetic mutations lead to abnormally small ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...