As the spread of infectious diseases accelerates, technologies that can accurately distinguish multiple viruses in a single ...

India has developed BIRSA 101, its first indigenous CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease, using a more precise ...

Ruth J. F. Loos is in the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark. Read the paper: ...

Of all the millions of people who have tried weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound, nearly one in four people don’t respond to treatment. They lose little weight, or none at all, and see few ...

Uri Alon was long puzzled by a textbook statistic: Longevity, the thinking went, was about 20 percent in our genes. “That makes you think what’s the rest of the 80 percent: Is it the lifestyle? Why ...

CRISPR Cas9 genome editing has transformed the way scientists approach gene therapy, acting like precise DNA scissors that can target and repair hereditary diseases at the genetic level. This ...