Disease-resistant frogs, cane-toad-munching quolls and other gene-edited native animals could be roaming the nation within ...

Horses with genomic edits to make them run faster have been banned from polo, but a zoo of CRISPR-edited animals is gaining ...

Macquarie University researchers used CRISPR technology to challenge textbook explanations for why albinism is rare in nature ...

Congress and the FDA are pushing pharmaceutical companies to replace animals with technology for drug research. That’s a long ...

The Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence the genomes of all animals, fungi and plants found in Great Britain and Ireland—some 35,000 in total. That is a colossal undertaking whose first ...

A Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, made a shocking announcement to the world in 2018: He had secretly engineered the birth of the first gene-edited babies. The birth of the twins was seen as reckless ...

Multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome (MSMDS) is a rare condition associated with stroke, aortic dissection ...

A gene called ASDL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings could shed light on why Neanderthals vanished.

Researchers engineered a bespoke CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing enzyme to develop a potential therapy for MSMDS, which ...

Gene linked to skin's resistance to pressure sheds light on how animals adapted to life on land by Paul Arnold, Phys.org edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

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University of Iowa researchers developed a gene therapy that could prevent craniosynostosis, a condition where babies’ skull ...