Sickle cell disease is debilitating. Due to faulty genetic code, red blood cells morph from round and plump into jagged monstrosities that scrape and...

Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating?Ross Andersen | The Atlantic“i‘We could have gone off and just built this in our building here for...

Ask a cancer researcher what the breakthrough treatment of the decade is, and they’ll tell you CAR T takes the crown.The therapy genetically engineers...

Though at least one vaccine for malaria is in use, it remains one of the deadliest diseases in the world. Almost half of the...

Life finds a way.That’s the conclusion of a new study in Nature, which pitted synthetic bacterial cells against the force of evolution. Stripped down...

Transforming human stem cells into embryo-like structures was previously unthinkable.Yet seemingly overnight, multiple teams published initial results that reach towards this goal. Each team...

Transforming human stem cells into embryo-like structures was previously unthinkable.Yet seemingly overnight, multiple teams published initial results that reach towards this goal. Each team...

Sunburns are terrible. The skin blisters and peels. Even a light brush from putting on clothes or tucking into bed sheets is agony.Now imagine...

A major vulnerability in the software used by gene sequencers produced by genetic-research equipment maker Illumina highlights the dangers of software vulnerabilities in medical...

Our bodies’ molecular machinery breaks down with age.DNA accumulate mutations. Their protective ends erode away. Mitochondria, the cell’s energy factory, falter and break down....

“The power in tailored therapeutics is for us to say more clearly to payers, providers, and patients: ‘this drug is not for everyone, but...

A tiny molecular syringe with bizarre origins could overhaul one of the thorniest problems in medicine: getting drugs to their target destinations inside the...