Precision and timing of gene expression is essential for normal biological functions and, when disrupted, can lead to many ...

As a fast and easy-to-use gene-editing technique, CRISPR is one of the biggest discoveries in 21 st century medical science, and an important facilitator of gene therapy development. Several gene ...

A patient death in a CRISPR trial halts gene editing studies, raising critical safety questions. What this means for the ...

The need to change regulations around gene-editing treatments was endorsed in November by the head of the US Food and Drug ...

Potentially more than 90% of Alzheimer's disease cases would not occur without the contribution of a single gene (APOE), ...

The great hope for gene therapy is that one day it will be out of the clinic and into mainstream therapeutics. Bearing enormous potential to treat or cure disease, such technology can replace a ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

The energy factories in our cells contain their own genes, and genetic mutations in them can cause deadly inherited diseases. These oblong-shaped organelles, or mitochondria, translate genes into ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter have uncovered a genetic process in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris that ...