For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

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A newly published research paper has reignited debate about when humans first set foot in Australia, proposing a later date ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

The baby brain is a great gateway for language to be transferred from brain to brain. All the main connections in the brain ...

From plants to animals to humans, CRISPR opened doors to potential cures for genetic diseases. But CRISPR has its limits. It works on double-stranded DNA, the form most people are familiar with.

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field. While existing editing ...

A baby in the US is among the first people with a rare genetic disorder to be treated with CRISPR, a customised gene-editing therapy that allows scientists to edit DNA. The baby, known as KJ, was ...

The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool to spiders. Following the genetic modification, the spiders ...