Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced ...

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true ...

After more than 12,000 years, dire wolves are back. On April 8, 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of three healthy dire wolf pups, marking the world’s first successful de-extinction of a ...

When scientists discovered how bacteria protect themselves against viral invaders, called phages, in the early 2000s, little did they know they'd stumbled upon a revolutionary tool researchers could ...

enEbCas12a enables all-in-one AAV delivery system. Credit: Chen Peng (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Researchers have developed a novel version of a ...

Disease-resistant pigs, faster-growing fish and heat-tolerant cows are among a new class of animals that are being genetically engineered for the dining table. Similar meat products could soon be sold ...

Researchers funded by the U.S. Navy have used gene-editing technology to make house spiders produce red fluorescent silk. This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is a ...

A man with type 1 diabetes has become the first patient to produce his own insulin after receiving genetically engineered ...

UC Davis researcher Dr. Hiromi Tajima explains how CRISPR-edited wheat boosts natural apigenin to promote nitrogen fixation, ...

Researchers have developed a novel version of a key CRISPR gene-editing protein that shows efficient editing activity and is small enough to be packaged within a non-pathogenic virus that can deliver ...