A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

A historic pandemic continues to rage, and it isn’t getting the attention it deserves given the virus’s toll. The outbreak in this case isn’t COVID-19, but a vicious iteration of the avian flu. But ...

Many genetic diseases are caused by diverse mutations spread across an entire gene, and designing genome editing approaches for each patient's mutation would be impractical and costly. Many genetic ...

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true ...

CRISPR-modified poplar trees and wild poplar trees grow in a greenhouse at North Carolina State University. (Chenmin Yang, NC State) (CN) — Researchers are using the revolutionary gene-editing ...

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India is close to approving a genetically edited variety of mustard, which offers better nutrition and disease resistance ...

They look like ordinary horses, with their honey brown coats and white patches. But these 10-month-old foals in Argentina are the world's first gene-edited horses, according to scientists. Experts say ...

CRISPR-modified animals are even being marketed for sale as pets. “It's allowed us to consider a whole raft of projects we couldn't before,” says Bruce Whitelaw, an animal biotechnologist at the ...

PULLMAN — Washington State University researchers have received the first Food and Drug Administration approval allowing meat from gene-edited pigs to enter the food supply chain. It’s the first time ...

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers are improving non-invasive treatment options for degenerative disc disease, an ailment that impacts 3 million adults yearly in the U.S., according to the ...