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Fitting sperm cells with a steering mechanism offers a new way to target treatments.

Growing designer babies and bringing back the woolly mammoth. Such thoughts that were once considered fiction are now a looming reality for scientists who are steps away from building artificial life.

A team of researchers at Boston University has developed a new way to engineer mammalian cells that allows for programming them to behave in desired ways.

First results in viable human embryos reveal CRISPR’s biggest problem

Genetic tools offer the chance to eradicate hereditary diseases. Misused, they could become instruments for prejudice.

Silencing a gene called Nrl in mice prevents the loss of cells from degenerative diseases of the retina, according to a new study. The findings could lead to novel therapies for preventing vision loss from human diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa.

Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast looked at how to repair nerve damage

Birds and bees are just the beginning for a burgeoning technology.