CRISPR is revolutionary. It’s also a total brute. The classic version of the gene editing wunderkind literally slices a gene to bits just to...

Few things in science freak people out more than human-animal hybrids. Named chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature that’s an amalgam of different...

When it comes to Alzheimer’s versus science, science is on the losing side. Alzheimer’s is cruel in the most insidious way. The disorder creeps...

We all know how human reproduction works: sperm meets egg, fertilized egg kicks off its journey, transforms into a human embryo, then becomes...

How we humans became what we are today is a question that scientists have been trying to answer for a long time. How...

You’ve likely heard the buzz around lab-grown (or cultured) meat. We can now take a few cells from a live animal and grow...

As I opened my copy of Science at home one night, an unfamiliar word in the title of a new study caught my...

Two and a half years ago, a study published in Science Advances detailed how the gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas-9 repaired genetic mutations related...

By developing a lab-engineered model of the human blood-brain barrier (BBB), neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory...

Picower Institute researchers are embarking on experiments to learn the mechanisms by which coronavirus might affect mental health.

A book is made of wood. But it is not a tree. The dead cells have been repurposed to serve another need. Now a...