Gene editing has delivered remarkable results against sickle cell disease. Now researchers are working to make these ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

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In late 2021, Amber Salzman interviewed for a job that she had no intention of taking. A relatively new start-up company, called Epicrispr Biotechnologies, was looking for a chief executive, and it ...

A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases, helping researchers zero ...

OpenAI is now turning its Daybreak initiative into a defensive cybersecurity program that combines Codex updates, the GPT-5.5-Cyber release and partner access for approved organizations. As OpenAI ...

For more than 20 years, scientists treated ghrelin as the body’s master hunger switch. A new look at snake genomes suggests ...