The race to advance gene editing tech continues, spurred on by starry-eyed Silicon Valley investors, entrepreneurs and even pronatalists. But it is still deeply controversial.

Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver disease. The death sparked an investigation ...

Regulatory T-cells, or Tregs, called the body's "security guards" by the Nobel committee, help stop the immune system from ...

New gene therapy offers hope for Huntington's disease, potentially increasing quality of life significantly. Trial results ...

Drosophila subobscura males regurgitate food and offer it as a gift to females during courtship. Credit: Tanaka et al., 2025 Researchers in Japan have genetically transferred a unique courtship ...

As medicine keeps changing, regenerative science is becoming an exciting area for doctors who want to help their patients even more. Imagine being able to fix damaged tissues and organs, heal ...

Two key gene variants may have made early domesticated horses more tame and more physically resilient to bearing a rider, researchers report August 28 in Science. The resulting horses were among the ...

Scientists discovered genetic variants in the Turkana that help conserve water in deserts, but these variants may now raise ...

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in its legs and barely any abdomen—may be tied to a missing gene. The detailed ...

A new, massive study suggests five genes are weakly associated with self-reported same-sex encounters. But the results, released Aug. 30 by a group that included the Broad Institute and 23andMe, are ...

Millions of years ago, humans' ancestors lost the function of a specific gene — but switching that gene back on could help protect people from gout, a new experimental study suggests. Gout is a type ...

New research has found that one specific diet can help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, even for people with the highest genetic predisposition. Harvard University and Mass General Brigham ...