A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Researchers have built a series of CRISPR-based platforms that can switch endogenous genes on and, just as critically, dial the activation level up or down by adjusting a small-molecule dose. The work ...

Gene editing donor organs during machine perfusion could rescue more than 28,000 organs discarded annually in the US, per a ...

The EU has eased restrictions on crops developed using novel genetic techniques. While supporters say the technology could ...

Fyodor D. Urnov is a professor of molecular therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, and director of therapeutic research and development at the Innovative ...

I was born in Washington, DC, in 1964, the oldest of three sisters, but the place that truly formed me as a scientist was Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Growing up there, far from the mainland ...

The EU has relaxed its rules on gene-editing. Now, only some gene-edited crops are regulated by the stringent GMO directive.

How does HIV, armed with only nine genes, manage to hijack the immune system so effectively? For decades, researchers have known that the virus depends on human proteins to enter, replicate, and ...

Antibiotic resistance is racing toward a global crisis, with “superbugs” projected to cause over 10 million deaths annually by 2050. Now, scientists at UC San Diego have unveiled a powerful new CRISPR ...