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 ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Researchers discovered that bowhead whales achieve extraordinary longevity and cancer resistance through highly efficient and ...

An international team led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientist has created a first-of-its-kind resource ...

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

This important and compelling study establishes a robust computational and experimental framework for the large-scale identification of metallophore biosynthetic clusters. The work advances beyond ...

Winston Timp, the principal investigator of the Timp Lab and associate professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the ...

Scientists are on the brink of even preventing some diseases — not just treating them — at the sperm, egg and early embryo ...

This allowed, for example, building human societies that can overcome unbelievable challenges like inventing spaceflight and AI. And when we look closely, the rules of AI mirror the computational ...

Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...