The first infant to undergo gene-editing therapy has accomplished another first — his first steps. KJ Muldoon is walking and ...

Inflammation has long been a warning sign in kidney clinics, a red flag that often appears years before a patient tips into ...

Live Science's health channel editor makes predictions about the medical breakthroughs and public health shifts to come in ...

Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring ...

The baby saved from a rare disease by a first-ever personalized gene fix has reached a big milestone, taking his first steps ahead of Christmas. KJ Muldoon is walking and getting ready to celebrate ...

Gene editing has the potential to cure thousands of people suffering from devastating rare diseases. But the Nobel ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD involve a breakdown in our ability to separate signal from noise. The brain is constantly ...

Texas Sen. John Cornyn sounded the alarm that a biotech startup firm that has raised some $30 million to study diseases in embryos is working on gene-editing techniques for humans at their ...

Gene therapy is a therapeutic strategy used to treat disease by correcting defective genes or modifying how genes are expressed. The techniques used in gene therapy involve the administration of a ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...