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

G ene therapy has always held enormous promise to correct genetic diseases, but turning that potential into treatments has been challenging.

Princeton University awarded honorary degrees to Omar M. Yaghi, Daniel Chee Tsui, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Joshua ...

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KJ Muldoon came into the world with a genetic time bomb ticking inside him.

In 2015 alone, there were between 1,001 to 1,659 new cases of sickle cell anemia per 100,000 births ... “You may have heard of the CRISPR technique, which involves manipulating genes to enhance the ...

Beyond human health, biotechnology is fundamental to securing our food future ...

Last Thursday during a roundtable on stem cell therapies, new FDA Commissioner Marty Makary referred to EBM levels of evidence as an artificial and dogmatic construct. Apparently Dr. David Katz's "mor ...

Scientists have identified hundreds of genes that are associated with autism, building a convincing case that genetics are ...

Kashmir University Scientists Pioneer India's First CRISPR-Edited Sheep - SKUAST-Kashmir scientists developed Indias first ...

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

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at MUSC have joined forces to create and test an ...