MIT researchers have dramatically lowered the error rate of prime editing, a genome-editing technique based on CRISPR. This advance could make it easier to develop gene therapy treatments for a ...

Every new life begins after a genetic shuffle. When organisms make eggs or sperm, maternal and paternal chromosomes pair up ...

When a sperm meets an egg, a lot has to go right for an embryo to develop into a complete organism. One critical step of ...

Every new life begins after a genetic shuffle. When organisms make eggs or sperm, maternal and paternal chromosomes pair up ...

Imagine a situation where amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) could be diagnosed by looking at a hair sample. This future might be closer than we realize. Recent studies suggest that there may soon be ...

For a long time, scientists have suspected that stuttering — a common speech condition that affects an estimated 1 in every 100 people — could be heritable. Despite how common it is, it's still a ...

A new genetic analysis has uncovered an ancient and previously unknown human lineage in southwestern China, offering a potential answer to the mystery of Tibetan ancestry. The discovery, based on a ...