For decades, Arieh Warshel, USC Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and a 2013 Nobel laureate, has used computer simulations ...

Programmable CRISPR tools are turning stem cell biology into something closer to software engineering, shrinking ...

This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

Preliminary results from two trials of the gene therapy exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) suggest the therapy offers an effective cure for beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease in children younger ...

A rare disease mom and scientist shares on the "First Opinion Podcast" how she serves as a translator between her two ...

Comparing the genomes of snakes with distinct coloration patterns pinpointed the genetic variants that contribute to these ...

For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their ...

The tests have not been approved by federal regulators, but that hasn’t stopped patients from wanting them — and doctors from worrying.

So, even via the more modest predictions, people will be able to double their longevity. When you reach 100 years old, you ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

Drug resistance has long turned some of the most advanced lung cancer therapies into temporary victories, with tumors learning to shrug off chemotherapy that once held them in check. A new wave of ...