Innovation often begins with solving problems that others consider impossible. For Dr Robert Sola Okojie, a Nigerian-born ...

USP’s Diane McCarthy on the emerging standards platform and opportunities for stakeholders to help shape standards evolution.

As genome editing therapies move through clinical trials to regulatory approval, scientists continue the quest for the holy ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts — Designer babies who are genetically engineered for desirable health, physical and intellectual ...

Abraham Lincoln, for one, may have had the syndrome—and are at very high risk of a kind of fatal rupture in the heart.

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Nanoparticles are widely used in medicine to deliver drugs, genes or imaging agents to specific parts of the body. Once a ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases, helping researchers zero ...

Researchers describe minimal versatile genetic perturbation technology (mvGPT). Capable of precisely editing genes, activating gene expression and repressing genes all at the same time, the technology ...

CRISPR functions as a programmable genetic memory system derived from bacterial immune defenses against viral infections. Guide RNA allows for rapid multiplexed targeting compared to older ...

When ChatGPT first launched and went viral, some common sentiments around the tool were that it was a shortcut to doing real work. Anybody could type in a few sentences and get text back that they ...