Your genes play a huge role in what makes and shapes your entire existence. Since you inherit your genes from your parents, ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...

The UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester announced Thursday it received a $35 million gift that aims to advance research to ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...

GeneDx is targeting a big market for its genetic testing: every newborn baby. The 24-old-company is developing a plan to make the testing common at birth.

You may have heard about the large underground seed vault in Svalbard, Norway, which opened in 2008. But you might be ...

It is a genetic disorder caused by inherited mutations in a person’s DNA that affect the properties of haemoglobin. Haemoglobin is made up of four proteins organised around the iron-carrying ...

The Rice lab of bioengineer Gang Bao and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the ...

Genetic testing for Huntington's disease (HD), a progressive motor and cognitive disorder with onset in midlife, is one example. Individuals who have an affected parent have a 50% chance of ...