Sam Altman is backing Merge Labs to develop a non-invasive brain-computer interface using sound waves. The project aims to ...

Every time a doctor orders a CT scan, or a child receives a lifesaving vaccine, or your phone’s GPS corrects itself by the ...

Some of the most expensive drugs currently in use are gene therapies to treat specific diseases, and their high cost limits ...

Traditional breeding and genetic modification methods have struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of plant viruses. CRISPR/Cas systems, originally derived from bacterial immune responses, ...

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

Researchers have developed an improved method of gene editing that is precise, more efficient than other similar methods and ...

In the early days of the growing coronavirus outbreak that would soon become a pandemic, an elite group of international scientists gathered on a conference call to discuss a shocking possibility: The ...

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used by astronomers and physicists ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

Over millennia, people have selectively bred the sugarcane plant to optimize the crop’s taste, yield and ease of cultivation.

Ray Offenheiser discusses the humble plant breeder’s audacious plan to feed the world and the fallout he didn’t forsee. Borlaug smiling in wheat field. Image, 1960s. International Maize and Wheat ...

The award “recognises and encourages young scientists up to the age of 45 years who have made an exceptional contribution in ...