A UC San Diego-led study linked early childhood exposure to the bacterial toxin colibactin with the rise in early-onset ...

Scientists have identified a strong link between childhood exposure to a bacterial toxin called colibactin and the rising ...

An invisible intruder puts the delicate balance in our lungs to the test: the mold Aspergillus fumigatus, harmless in nature, ...

This is the first gene editor to use a CRISPR-associated transposase to make targeted edits at therapeutically useful levels ...

Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

As scientists question the rise in early colon cancer cases, a new study is offering some potential answers. Colored scanning ...

One of the most commonly used gene-delivery methods relies on engineered viruses to insert stretches of genetic material into ...

A new study has found a link between the bacteria responsible for gum disease and atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm ...

Chinese scientists have discovered in samples from the Tiangong space station a previously unknown strain of bacteria that ...

Ask scientists which gene-editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they'd probably describe a system that's ...

A new gene editor takes advantage of CRISPR-associated proteins to insert whole genes into the genome, scientists report.