Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

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Ai-Da makes history as the first humanoid robot to design a home, with designs for future housing for the Moon and Mars.

The need to change regulations around gene-editing treatments was endorsed in November by the head of the US Food and Drug ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA ...

If I were to locate the moment AI slop broke through into popular consciousness, I’d pick the video of rabbits bouncing on a ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...