To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...
Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, today announced the publication of ...
Cutting-edge gene editing technology could eradicate Down syndrome, according to Japanese scientists. Down syndrome, which causes a range of developmental differences and affects 1 in 700 newborns in ...
Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...
For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their ...
The practice of genetic modification is as old as humanity. For thousands of years, humans have bred crops, livestock and even pets that possess desirable traits. This selective process, which alters ...
Goldenberries taste like a cross between pineapple and mango, pack the nutritional punch of a superfood, and are increasingly ...
Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...