The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Experts believe technology may soon allow humans to slow or even reverse aging, with companies racing to make immortality a ...

As we enter entrepreneurship month this November, we’re celebrating the professors and alumni who are fueling job creation ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

The world’s largest network of environmental groups approved the exploration of genetic engineering tools to aid in the ...

Biologist Charles Darwin began crafting his theory of evolution on a trip to the Galapagos Islands, where he discovered animals had developed unique traits that varied from island to island. Nearly ...

Genetically modified crops are under fire, even though scientists agree that genetic engineering is a key technology for boosting yields and profits, as well as contribute to environmental and climate ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...