Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

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Researchers from the Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a new gene-editing tool that can enable scientists to perform millions of genetic experiments ...

Important genetic differences in how females and males experience depression have been revealed for the first time in findings that could pave the way for more targeted intervention and treatments.

This photo provided by the Providence Cancer Institute of Oregon in May 2022 shows Kathy Wilkes of Ormond Beach, Fla. Wilkes, with advanced pancreatic cancer, saw her tumors dramatically shrink after ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...

The human body was not designed to live in space, but genetic experiments on the International Space Station are preparing a biological toolkit for the future of long-term spaceflight. And some of the ...

If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration is the father. When scientists kept running into aggravating problems with the existing tools and methods they were using to perform genetic ...

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In a novel experiment, a woman with advanced pancreatic cancer saw her tumors dramatically shrink after researchers in Oregon turbocharged her own immune cells, highlighting a possible new way to ...