Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

Tom Yeung here with your Sunday Digest. In 2007, the hit TV show South Park introduced one of its most memorable characters ...

We stand at a technological precipice. From AI to CRISPR, discover why inclusive global governance is critical to shaping a future that serves all of humanity.

Ai-Da makes history as the first humanoid robot to design a home, with designs for future housing for the Moon and Mars.

The rapid spread of animal diseases and pathogen evolution have long posed significant threats to the healthy development of ...

Genetic disorders occur due to alterations in the primary genetic material—deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)—of an organism.

Infection with the pathogenic yeast fungus Candida auris (C. auris) can wreak havoc on the health of hospital patients and ...

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA ...

Genetic disorders occur due to alterations in the primary genetic material, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), of an organism.

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), the new gene-editing technology that claims to reduce blood cholesterol levels by more than half, has revolutionised the landscape ...

Scientists have used CRISPR to give the goldenberry a modern makeover, shrinking the plant by about a third and making it ...

Bacteria contain a wide variety of mechanisms to fend off invaders like viruses. One of these strategies involves cleaving transfer ribonucleic acids (tRNA), which are present in all cells and play a ...