According to Bloomberg News, Vinay Prasad, who oversees gene therapies at the FDA, said the plans will be published in early November. He foresees the approach sparking curiosity for the next wave of ...

The Duke Reading Center, which specializes in the analysis of retinal images, collaborated with Sina Farsiu, professor in the departments of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering, to play a pivotal ...

Scientists at the University of Sheffield are conducting research into natural genetic engineering with a focus on Lateral Gene Transfer to help improve crop resilience to extreme weather.

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

Professor David Williams, a New Zealander working on gene therapy at UCLA, has warned that the Bill is “unfair to farmers” and based on false assumptions about precision and safety. He points to ...

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

A new method developed by scientists could soon make liver disease treatment easier and more effective—without a transplant.

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

There has been an endless “war” between pathogen organisms armed with the ability to establish new, genetically based ...

Scientists are venturing into the realm of de-extinction, aiming to revive the woolly mammoth using advanced genetic engineering techniques. This endeavor is part of a broader initiative targeting 25 ...