In May, a historic moment in science and medicine was captured in a single photo that circulated across news outlets ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human ...

In a medical milestone, a research team in China successfully transplanted a CRISPR gene-edited pig liver into a living ...

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This makes the organs virus-free and less likely to trigger an immune response, improving their safety and durability.

Fred Ramsdell was on vacation in the Wyoming wilderness when he and two colleagues received the honor for their breakthroughs ...

From non-browning bananas to vitamin-enhanced tomatoes, here’s the genetically tweaked produce that could soon reach UK ...

AstraZeneca will get exclusive rights to develop and sell approved therapies, if any, that target immune system-related ...

Gene editing is precise enough to address a variety of needs. Researchers harness gene-editing to revolutionize how we grow ...

REPAIRome specifically addresses the repair of one of the most serious types of DNA damage, DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs).

Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana's groundbreaking work on the genetic code, deciphering how DNA sequences translate to ...

Regulatory T cells help your immune system distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘nonself’ – and can open doors to better treatments for cancer, autoimmune disease and transplant rejection.