RheumaGen, Inc., a cell and gene therapy company engineering a new class of therapeutics to cure common autoimmune diseases, today announced groundbreaking preclinical research that supports a nearly ...

On June 28, 2012, the most significant scientific breakthrough of the first quarter of the 21st century was announced to the ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...

A city research centre plans to use tomatoes to test the impact of gene-edited food in what is thought to be the first human trial in the UK.

On Thursday, Editas Medicine Inc. (NASDAQ:EDIT) announced a strategic realignment to focus on in vivo gene editing. In vivo refers to studies or experiments conducted on living organisms or cells ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated ...

In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this time to prepare for their arrival. Read the paper: Heritable polygenic editing ...

Millions of years ago, humans' ancestors lost the function of a specific gene — but switching that gene back on could help protect people from gout, a new experimental study suggests. Gout is a type ...

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