Sharon Begley

Robert McIntyre would like to get a few things straight. That “waiting list” of people plunking down $10,000 to have ...

Less than two years after producing an exhaustive report on human genome editing, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the National ...

The Chinese scientist who shocked the world in November by announcing that twin girls had been born from embryos that he had created ...

[Neurosurgeon Ashesh Mehta] was operating on [an] epilepsy patient to determine the source of seizures. But the patient agreed to ...

For someone who has caused a worldwide uproar over what many fellow scientists consider an ethical outrage, He Jiankui of ...

Information wants to be free, says the old internet meme, and a genomics company will now apply that to DNA: ...

Nearly 40 years after surgeons first operated on fetuses to cure devastating abnormalities, researchers have taken the first step toward curing genetic ...

[I]t’s rare that Nobel announcements don’t produce grumblings about who was left out, and this year was no exception. At ...

Sowbugs, armadillos, hedgehogs… and DNA? The same strategy that some animals use to avoid being attacked — roll into a ...

For 22 years Myriad Genetics, one of the oldest genetic testing companies, has refused to make public its proprietary database of BRCA1 ...

Microdosing involves taking roughly one-tenth the “trip” dose of a psychedelic drug, an amount too little to trigger hallucinations but ...

Although the latest analysis of experimental Alzheimer’s drugs finds that literally zero are being tested in late-stage clinical trials to treat moderate ...

[Dr. W. French] Anderson has been hailed as the father of gene therapy and was honored at George H.W. Bush’s ...

From the earliest days of the CRISPR-Cas9 era, scientists have known that the first step in how it edits genomes — snipping ...

STAT’s story about CRISPR-edited cells often lacking a functional gene known to prevent cancer caused a bit of a stir... Cut to ...

Editing cells’ genomes with CRISPR-Cas9 might increase the risk that the altered cells, intended to treat disease, will trigger cancer, two studies ...

One of the world’s richest science awards, given only in alternate years, will go to three discoverers of the CRISPR-Cas9 ...

Far be it from us to tell 23andMe how to run its business, but if it or any other DNA company wants ...

[T]wo years in, an ambitious project to synthesize genomes — including human ones — is moving on from its shaky ...

It’s baaaaack, that reputation-shredding, stock-moving fight to the death over key CRISPR patents. On [April 30] in Washington, D.C., the ...

This three-part series of documentary shorts, produced by Retro Report in partnership with STAT, looks back at the roots of three of ...

The fear that CRISPR-based genome repair for preventing or treating genetic diseases will be derailed by “editing gone wild” has ...

Scientists at Harvard University have assembled the first nearly complete genome of the little bush moa, a flightless bird that ...

Some of the world’s leading CRISPR labs have, independently, tweaked CRISPR — adding bursts of light here and rings of ...

In genome-editing, the challenge for CRISPR-wielding scientists is to edit only one of the two copies, or alleles, of every ...

There have been mice and cows and pigs and camels, bunnies and bantengs and ferrets and dogs, but ever since ...

Unless someone swipes one of President Trump’s used forks from the Mar-a-Lago dining room and sends it to 23andMe for ...

The same kind of DNA tinkering that produced the first FDA-approved gene therapy for cancer has shown hints of suppressing and even ...