Gene-editing kicked off 2024 with a bang in the medical sector but closed the year with a whimper. It started with the FDA ...

Treatments for rare diseases are hard to create and expensive to deliver, but there is new hope for editing the software of ...

Time for some extremely good news: the cures for catastrophic diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s, heart disease and HIV are ...

Then, scientists could use CRISPR to swap out parts of human DNA with Neanderthal DNA. This process would require a lot of ...

Human beings are a bit of a puzzle. There’s a paradoxical desire for connection with others while also staying unique. On the ...

Despite the widespread application of PLK1-targeted therapies in cancer trials, anemia ... Cell cycle analysis was performed using an EdU staining kit (Invitrogen, C10632) following the manufacturer’s ...

Some types of sickle cell disease cause severe illness, while others have a mild or unapparent course. Sickle cell disease is present from birth and inherited from genes you receive from your parents.

We could not survive without the proteins in our bodies -- they control cell division, provide a strong immune system and make our cells resistant to external attack. As in "real construction ...

Editas on Thursday kicked off a cost-cutting transition initiative after its hunt for a development sponsor for its sickle cell disease therapy renizgamglogene autogedtemcel turned up empty. As part ...

The oldest DNA ever recovered from modern humans shows they arrived as small groups in Europe more than 45,000 years ago and mixed with Neanderthals - but left no descendants. Published today ...

The researchers cataloged the segments of Neanderthal DNA in each person’s genome, then compared them to see where those segments appeared and how that changed over time and distance.