An Italian foundation that helped a young boy overcome Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome becomes the first non-profit in the world to request approval of these innovative treatments from the European Medicines Agency and the FDA
The era of artificial intelligence has already begun and we talk more about its risks than its possibilities. Can we allow ourselves to be optimistic?
The Roslin Institute for Animal Research turns to gene editing to combat some of the most important diseases in livestock and poultry
The researcher has been given €1.5 million by the European Union to design a digital mind capable of explaining its reasoning
The tool offers the possibility of modifying larger regions of the genome with a lower risk of side effects, but at the moment it has only been tested in bacteria
Spanish researchers discover an individual genetic variant that explains why a hereditary heart disease manifests very differently in two siblings
Scientists have introduced arachnid genes into silkworms to produce threads as strong as nylon and six times tougher than Kevlar
Ian Wilmut, who died on Monday at age 79, was an honest scientist who found himself in the eye of the storm of the cloning controversy
Palestinian scientist Jacob Hanna uses a chemical cocktail to induce self-organization of embryonic stem cells into a structure similar to a natural embryo
The 21st Century is still in its infancy, yet it has already produced a host of events that are quickly reshaping the world
The sophisticated experimental treatment, which has proven to be effective in mice, opens the door to therapies that would be applied once and last a lifetime
The scientific community is aghast at He Jiankui’s return after three years in prison and compares him to Nazi doctors
A study by a group of Spanish scientists demonstrates how to create new gene-editing systems with molecules that no longer exist in nature
