An interstate poaching gang's arrest and seizure of big cat bones near Ranthambore Tiger Reserve has raised concerns. DNA ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Insulin-producing human pancreas cells can be manufactured with 3D printers, researchers reported at the International Transplant Congress underway in London.

MIT engineers have developed a new kind of low-cost, easy-to-use sensor that could bring fast and affordable disease testing ...

A newer technology called genome editing or gene editing has emerged in the last decade. “Gene editing is basically just conventional breeding, but done more intelligently,” she summarizes. “This ...

MIT’s CRISPR sensor detects cancer and HIV for 50 cents and stays effective for two months without refrigeration.

Using an inexpensive electrode coated with DNA, MIT researchers have designed disposable diagnostics that could be adapted to detect a variety of diseases, including cancer or infectious diseases such ...

Genome editing technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 have transformed biology, medicine, and agriculture, but concerns remain about ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...