The real revolution came in 2012, when researchers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier harnessed CRISPR, a natural bacterial defense system. In bacteria, CRISPR cuts out invading viruses’ DNA ...

The FDA’s Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad have laid out a path for CRISPR treatments on demand. An expert weighs in on what it ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based ...

With advanced simulations, scientists at Argonne, UChicago have created a way to predict and engineer new properties for quantum tech ...

Previous attempts at building a chemical computer have been too simple, too rigid or too hard to scale, but an approach based ...

Entered strategic partnership with Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for the development and commercialization of 4D-150 in the APAC region; to receive $85 million in upfront cash and expects to receive ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on ...

Department of Chemistry, Center for Bioanalytical Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China College of ...

Drawing inspiration from natural cell signaling cascades, chemists at Université de Montréal (UdeM) have developed a DNA-based signaling cascade that allows them to quantify and report via an easily ...

Department of Biological, Chemical and Environmental Sciences, Wheaton College Massachusetts, Norton, MA, United States Population geneticists increasingly confront a paradox: even with genome-scale ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed ...