Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

Gene therapy could be a permanent cure for many life-threatening hereditary diseases, and this will only help in the treatment of genetic diseases and cancer ...

Scientists from Kolkata-based Bose Institute have created GlowCas9 -- a CRISPR protein that lights up while performing gene editing -- to help boost treatment of genetic diseases ...

Friedreich's ataxia (FA) is a rare but devastating genetic disorder. Those with the condition are often diagnosed between 5 ...

KIT researchers succeeded for the first time in reducing the number of chromosomes in a plant using the CRISPR/Cas method – surprisingly without affecting its growth The CRISPR/Cas molecular scissors ...

EU lawmakers have been locked in intense negotiations for months on loosening rules on the use of new genetic technologies in ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

To understand how microarray technology is evolving to meet growing scientific demands, Technology Networks spoke with Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Ravi Gupta and Dr. Robert Balog.

Friedreich's ataxia (FA) is a rare but devastating genetic disorder. Those with the condition are often diagnosed between 5 and 15 years of age and ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a coffee cup.

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