Influential inventions often combine existing tools in new ways. The iPhone, for instance, amalgamated the telephone, web browser and camera, among many other devices. The same is now possible in gene ...

Emerging gene editing platforms are revolutionizing precision medicine, enabling safe and effective genetic modifications for ...

For over a thousand years, the story of human evolution was simple: Homo sapiens developed in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago from a single line of forebears. But today, one research has ...

Scientists have found a way to use the bacteria E. coli to convert plastic waste into a popular painkiller, a study said Monday, though outside experts doubted the technique would make a dent in the ...

It could be a saviour against disease, and a horrible weapon against humanity. There are no simple issues here. It’s a tough issue, and it just gets tougher. Genome editing (aka genome engineering) is ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.