Precision and timing of gene expression is essential for normal biological functions and, when disrupted, can lead to many ...

Inflammation has to fight pathogens fast—but it can't get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center ...

As a fast and easy-to-use gene-editing technique, CRISPR is one of the biggest discoveries in 21 st century medical science, and an important facilitator of gene therapy development. Several gene ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

A patient death in a CRISPR trial halts gene editing studies, raising critical safety questions. What this means for the ...

The great hope for gene therapy is that one day it will be out of the clinic and into mainstream therapeutics. Bearing enormous potential to treat or cure disease, such technology can replace a ...

The need to change regulations around gene-editing treatments was endorsed in November by the head of the US Food and Drug ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter have uncovered a genetic process in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris that ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

The energy factories in our cells contain their own genes, and genetic mutations in them can cause deadly inherited diseases. These oblong-shaped organelles, or mitochondria, translate genes into ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is known for enabling deeper insights into drug development, identifying patterns and molecules that may otherwise go unnoticed. Now it is poised to make similar ...