Brian Armstrong, the billionaire CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, says he’s ready to fund a US startup focused on gene-editing human embryos. If he goes forward, it would be the first ...

Victoria Gray is the first person in the world to receive CRISPR,  a gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease created by ...

A Falmouth teen, Jayden Wilsey, is the first to receive gene therapy to treat sickle cell at Boston Children's Hospital.

The efforts of these heroes and heroines were funded almost entirely by grants from the federal government: the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation and others. The ...

Epigenetic changes do not alter the genetic code itself, but by changing how DNA is organized within the cell, epigenetic ...