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

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach ...

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

SCRANTON, Pa. — At the University of Scranton on Thursday night, all four candidates vying to be the next mayor of the Electric City went head-to-head in a debate discussing several topics. They each ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said this week he’s ready for a public debate with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) amid the government shutdown, now in its third week. “I look forward to ...

The four candidates running for Syracuse mayor this fall met Tuesday for the first televised debate in the race. Democrat Sharon Owens, Republican Tom Babilon and independent candidates Tim Rudd and ...

Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield and the Rev. Solomon Kinloch, Jr. will face off in a televised mayoral debate Wednesday evening, Oct. 15. Detroit's WXYZ ...

These long-term findings in a large patient cohort show the sustained clinical efficacy and safety of autologous CD34+ hematopoietic stem-cell lentiviral gene therapy for ADA-SCID, indicating that it ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated cardiomyopathy) and muscle weakness (muscular dystrophies). Many of these diseases ...

A debate preview. Also, Zohran Mamdani speaks in Manhattan and his critics get spoofed on “Saturday Night Live.” By Katie Glueck This is The Sprint for City Hall, a limited-run series on the critical ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...

Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-VA)’s efforts to reverse her underdog status in the Virginia gubernatorial race against former Rep. Abigail Spanberger kicked into high gear in the last full month of ...