He was cast as a real-life Dr Frankenstein, a scientist whose ego had led him to tamper with human life. After more than a hundred Chinese scientists issued a statement condemning his experiment, ...

Scientists discovered that certain gene changes allow cells to function even when frataxin, the protein lost in Friedreich’s ...

Gene-edited goldenberries clear USDA review, moving closer to farms. Compact plants solve farming challenges for this ...

President Donald Trump is heading into the 2026 election year vowing to pull out all the stops to promote artificial ...

The patchwork rollout of a gene therapy exposes weaknesses in the pricing and regulatory frameworks that determine who ...

Ractigen Therapeutics, a pioneering developer of small activating RNA (saRNA) therapeutics, today announced the successful ...

The outgoing comptroller general reflects on leading the agency through national crises, building a skilled workforce and ...

Now, it’s open to almost everyone who can afford it. Companies will offer to test for hundreds of genes to help people make ...

Blast disease, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (syn. Pyricularia oryzae), is a major threat to global rice production, responsible for nearly 30% of yield losses worldwide. This disease not ...

In a new study published in Nature, scientists have successfully developed genetically modified mosquitoes in Tanzania that ...

Researchers developed a blood test that spots ALS with 90% accuracy. The 46-gene panel could cut diagnostic delays that now ...

Dr. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke is spending the fall semester in Florianópolis, a city in southern Brazil, to study the ethics of ...