Cell division is an essential biological process that removes aged cells and continuously renews tissues. In the human body, billions of cells divide each day: intestinal cells are completely renewed ...

For Uditi’s parents, reading about use of CRISPR tech, or ‘genetic scissors’, to treat baby KJ, diagnosed with severe genetic ...

A simple blood test called liquid biopsy can detect cancer early, monitor its return, and guide personalized ...

Infant KJ Muldoon was born with carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1) deficiency, a condition so rare that only about 1 in ...

“This is the first step towards the use of gene editing therapies to treat a wide variety of rare genetic disorders for which ...

The 2004 murder of a University of Tennessee student was solved years later through a billboard tip and DNA evidence, but the suspect took his own life before the trial.

Biotech startup Haemanthus says it can detect illnesses with tiny amounts of blood, urine and saliva. Here’s why that’s more ...

A first-of-its-kind clinical trial will evaluate stem cell transplants with cells from deceased donors. (University of Utah ...

G ene therapy has always held enormous promise to correct genetic diseases, but turning that potential into treatments has ...

Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme ...

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other ...