The ‘base editing’ technique that researchers used is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry it will spur a rush to ...

It's a "gateway to embryo editing to do enhancements." The post Scientists Concerned Latest Gene Editing of Human Embryos ...

A new genetic technique allows for much more precise editing of human embryos than the CRISPR method used to date. A team of ...

Qi Biodesign, a company involved in genome-editing technologies, announced that it has completed a $75 million funding round, which includes seed funding and Series Pre-A and Series A stages. Beijing ...

Eight years after a Chinese scientist's report of gene-edited babies shocked the world, U.S. scientists reported editing ...

Volatile macroeconomic events are magnified in life science and healthcare applications, which are capital intensive, long-term investments with associated regulatory, safety, and commercial risks.

A team of Chinese researchers has developed two new genome editing technologies, known collectively as Programmable Chromosome Engineering (PCE) systems. The study, published online in Cell on August ...

This project involved a collaborative meeting in Hanover, Germany in October 2017. The collaborators were the InterAcademy Partnership and the European Academies Science Advisory Concil. The workshop ...

The development of synthetic apomixis enables the fixation of heterosis, which is a breakthrough that promises to transform conventional hybrid breeding strategies and trigger a new wave of green ...

Our current food system is facing a myriad of critical challenges. The United Nations predicts that the world population will reach 9.3 billion people by 2050, which means that we will need to produce ...

A team of researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) recently won a $250,000 prize from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve technologies for delivering ...