Chinese scientists create modified fungus that tastes like meat, produces protein quickly, and uses 70 percent less land.

Gene editing, a set of techniques used to alter sections of an organism's DNA, is helping scientists cure diseases previously ...

A new method for safely inserting large chunks of DNA into genomes has now measured up in mice, potentially paving the way ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first cell-based gene therapies for sickle cell disease, including the ...

A 19-year-old Canadian man becomes the first human cured through prime gene editing after doctors corrected a rare genetic ...

"2025 proved that our technology delivers, not in the distant future, but right now," says Tropic CEO Gilad Gershon.

After teasing a new regulatory process for personalized genetic medicines at the end of last year, the FDA today unveiled draft guidance for an approval pathway that could see custom CRISPR therapies, ...

Drug delivery researchers have vastly improved the potential of genetic therapies by overcoming the challenge of consistently getting genes and gene-editing tools where they need to be within cells.

Today there are injected medicines that block proteins produced by the PCSK9 and ANGPTL3 genes in the liver, thus helping the body clear away cholesterol. The new research uses CRISPR, the Nobel Prize ...

An international team of researchers has modified a probiotic yeast to make it safer for use by immunocompromised people, older adults and infants. Testing in an animal model found that the modified ...

Gene-edited animals, including faster-growing fish, heat-tolerant cows and disease-resistant pigs, have already been approved in the United States, Japan and several countries in South America. These ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...