Geneticist Dr. Robert Green is sequencing the DNA of healthy newborns to find hidden disease risks. This knowledge can save lives — but gene sequencing is not a crystal ball.

Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013, calling it the biggest ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

September 18, 1939 - deep in the Polish countryside near Pociecha - three TKS tankettes roll out under Section Commander ...

My bearded dragon hears something hit the floor and instantly turns into a tiny exterminator. In this clip you can watch him sprint across the living room the moment I drop the feeder roaches, ...

Researchers at the University of Connecticut have reportedly developed a method to genetically modify organisms without leaving any foreign genes behind. According to a study published in Horticulture ...

Because it requires so little to produce, the new strain could help bring more flavorful, environmentally friendly meat alternatives to grocery aisles. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist ...

KJ Muldoon received a groundbreaking new treatment earlier this year. The baby saved from a rare disease by a first-ever personalized gene fix has reached a big milestone, taking his first steps ahead ...

Mosquitoes are an uncomfortable, itchy nuisance. But for people in sub-Saharan Africa, a bite could mean death. The pests are living incubators for the parasite that causes malaria. Roughly 600,000 ...

Among over 20,000 women without breast cancer who underwent genetic testing in a clinical trial, 714 (3.1%) carried pathogenic variants in breast cancer susceptibility genes. About 30% reported no ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Aliza Chasan ...