Autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), affect ...

Genetically engineered monkeys carrying a foreign gene that is passed on to their offspring provide a potentially valuable bridge between mouse models of disease and treatment for human disorders.

The Canadian government is currently considering approving the entry of gene-edited pigs into the food system.

In a significant move towards the liberalization of the healthcare sector, Shanghai's Pudong New Area witnessed the first batch of six foreign-invested biotechnology companies, including Merck ...

So chance alone can cause a newly inserted foreign gene to take over the functionality of a gene and be preserved. The more “tries” a gene has to enter a genome, the more likely it is to be ...

He Jiankui, who shocked the world in 2018 by announcing the creation of the first gene-edited babies, tells NPR he's now working on a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

PLASMID-FREE EDITING: To mutate a specific gene of interest in a plant (lettuce shown here), scientists first grow protoplasts—plant cells lacking a cell wall (1). Preassembled CRISPR complexes, ...

China will allow wholly foreign-owned hospitals to be set up in several major cities, and let foreign investors offer human stem cell and gene therapy services in pilot free-trade zones, as part ...

The Download: the first personalized gene-editing drug, and Montana’s Right to Try experiment Plus: Grok's fixation on white genocide was the result of an unauthorized modification, xAI says By ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, microbes and plants might have given insects an evolutionary advantage by passing genes to them through horizontal gene transfer. Researchers now report that ...

Talk about a lonely hearts club. An unnamed woman from Guadeloupe has the rarest blood type on earth, to the extent that ...

“Implementing these strategies would significantly improve the efficiency of plant cell-based protein production,” Xu tells GEN.. “For example, cell wall engineering can improve protein ...