Henry Ford Health has treated the first Michigan patient outside clinical trials with Roctavian, the newly approved gene ...

The gene therapy, which was acquired by Novartis in 2023, is also being tested in a separate Phase I/II trial of pediatric ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

One year after Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa's deaths in Santa Fe, friends reveal how the couple's privacy and devotion shaped their final days.

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored incorrectly? Jesse Dixon, MD, Ph.D., has spent years studying the way this ...

Most research on autism focuses on younger people, but some studies suggest older adults face increased risks — and perhaps ...

Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

The idea of self-amplifying gene editing is to get cells to pass on packages of CRISPR machinery to their neighbours, boosting the effect ...