When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...

A gene variant present in most people might have contributed to cognitive differences between humans and their closest ...

CRISPR is like an editor that can rewrite DNA letter by letter or gene by gene, to remove harmful mutations or add protective ...

A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans ...

A new study suggests the unique human version of the NOVA1 protein developed after our ancestors split from Neanderthals on ...

A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ...

CRISPR technology, driven by Cas9, redefines gene editing, facilitating targeted DNA modifications that advance genetic ...

Could it also give us better tomatoes, a hybrid woolly mammoth-elephant that could help save Arctic forests, and perhaps even ...

Scientists are exploring gene editing as a way to correct trisomy at the cellular level. Using CRISPR-Cas9, researchers ...

Recent breakthroughs and regulatory shifts in gene editing might be the key to moving from treating the symptoms of diseases ...

The findings could someday help identify and treat speech-related problems, researchers said. View on euronews ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...