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~40% HSC editing using Cas12a and proprietary lipid nanoparticles; HbF expression reached 20% in human red blood cells within one month. Workforce reduction by 65% and leadership departures, extending ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture.

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for ...

As developers of gene editing therapies and other genetic medicines get set to report third quarter earnings in coming days, analysts and especially investors will keep their eyes on whether the ...

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 ...

Scientists claim to have evidence that they discovered non-human “alien DNA” in people here on Earth and it may have been ...

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 ...

Zheng-Yi Chen, DPhil, associate scientist at the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, and Ines and Fredrick Yeatts Chair in Otolaryngology, at Mass Eye and Ear, is the senior and co-corresponding author of a ...