Turning a bacterial defense mechanism into one of the most powerful tools in genetics has earned Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier the Nobel Prize in chemistry. The award for these genetic ...

Americans strongly support using gene editing techniques for people’s therapeutic needs. But, when it comes to their potential use to enhance human health over the course of a lifetime by reducing a ...

Hunter syndrome mostly affects boys and causes the body to slowly fill up with substances it cannot break down ...

It has been over a year since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. And perhaps the most important lesson is that we were completely unprepared to face the debilitating ...

I have, I’ll concede, been more critical of the North Carolina Supreme Court than most. I have watched, and complained of, their lawlessness, their bold and unrelenting partisanship, their wild and ...