Touchlight has expanded its mbDNA platform with the introduction of three new circular DNA architectures: sscDNA, hsscDNA, and dscDNA.

We have written about the promise of gene therapy to correct genetic disease many times. An exciting development happened ...

Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned ...

The grantmaking organization Open Philanthropy has awarded funding for a University of California San Diego technology ...

Recognized in the Biotechnology category of the 2025 Top Innovations contest, small Cas12l nucleases are versatile, ...

CRISPR technology could one day create “designer babies, ” raising major ethical and social inequality concerns.

A new West Coast biotech has emerged into the busy in vivo cell therapy space, this time with the backing of Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. Azalea Therapeutics has bloomed ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

How they’re doing it: The new company, called Preventive, is being formed to research so-called “heritable genome editing,” ...

Vinay Prasad, chief of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, is planning to publish a paper this month to ...

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.

Biotech company Metagenomi (NASDAQ:MGX) is utilizing artificial intelligence chips from Amazon Web Services (AMZN) to enhance its gene-editing technology development, a Reuters report said. Metagenomi ...