Artificial intelligence, genome sequencing, gene editing and other technologies are transforming our lives, world and future. These accelerating and increasingly interconnected technologies have the ...

Sequencing bacterial genomes allows scientists to study bacterial diversity, immunity, and the human microbiome, but it ...

Scientists discovered years ago that the hypothalamus - which helps to manage body temperature, hunger, sex drive, sleep and more - includes neurons that express the protein opsin 3 (OPN3).

The CRISPR-Cas9 system offers groundbreaking genome editing capabilities, yet off-target cleavage raises concerns about ...

Neuropsychiatric disorders are becoming increasingly prevalent. Given their complex and multifactorial pathogenesis, there is ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and ...

The Rice lab of bioengineer Gang Bao and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...