There’s 99.9% similarity across human genomes, with the remaining 0.1% variation being what makes each person unique.1 In ...

In a first for adults in Singapore, scientists are conducting gene editing trials on heart patients to correct defects at ...

Recently approved gene therapies offer patients one-time, potentially curative treatments for genetic diseases such as sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia. But “one-time” miracle solutions can ...

In the 1990s, Lee Sweeney, a physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, demonstrated that inserting the gene encoding insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) into the muscle cells of mice increased ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...

Editor’s note: On June 3, 2025, KJ Muldoon was discharged from the hospital and is now at home with his family. When a baby born in Philadelphia was announced as the first person to get a gene therapy ...

In announcing that circumcision doubles the rate of autism, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Long-term follow-up shows 95% success rate, no serious complications in largest ADA-SCID gene therapy study to date ...

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan. As soon as the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy on March 23, 2025, ...