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 and cancer, said the ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...

The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study ...

The 2025 International Summit on Human Genome Editing called for: • A moratorium on heritable edits until safety and societal consensus are achieved Meanwhile, patients with devastating genetic ...

A cutting-edge therapy using base-edited immune cells is offering a major breakthrough for patients with one of the toughest ...

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Scientists in China have genetically engineered a fungus that is widely used as a meat substitute, making it an even more ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies that target those genes to ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the competition. But sometimes, as in the corporate ...

Two mutated alleles of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene result in the autosomal recessive ...