A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.

Recent research has shed light on the complex processes that cells use to maintain the quality of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

Washington, DC Program The Forum featured sessions on genetics of complex traits and common morbidity over a lifetime; ...

The group recommends considering risk-reducing surgery for those with ovarian cancer risk and enhanced surveillance to manage breast cancer risk.

VS Hospitals is also running an exclusive Familial Cancer Screening Clinic that specialises in risk assessment. The clinic ...

A rare disease that has cut off children from the outside world now potentially has a cure. A clinical trial to treat severe ...

Fred Hutch bioengineer Dr. Matthias Stephan is working to develop a special foam that could help make gene therapy for blood ...

The Food and Drug Administration is adding a new warning to a gene therapy linked to two patient deaths earlier this year ...

New research suggests that DNA variants help predict toxicity and response in CAR T-cell therapy for large B-cell lymphoma.

Earlier this year, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn created a first-of-its-kind drug customized to ...