Some scientists strive to separate work from life, while some prefer to mix them.

Aging research would greatly benefit from consistently making annotated life span data available.

Shondra Pruett-Miller has taken many paths in her career with her love of genome editing always as a guiding light.

Lauren Drouin shares how personal connections and scientific curiosities drive her work on gene therapy viral vectors. 

Genetic engineering pioneer Kevin Esvelt’s work highlights biotechnology’s immense potential for good—but also for catastrophe.

Samantha Maragh has taken on the difficult challenge of standardizing assays, data norms, and terminology in the ever evolving genome editing field.

The US National Academy of Sciences just issued one of its matchless Big Fat Reports, this one on intellectual property rights, patents, and patenting related to genomics and proteomics. Don't nod off; the report came to a couple of intriguing conclusions that are likely to have a big impact on the life sciences.One surprise is this: the conventional wisdom that US patenting has interfered with or somehow prevented academic research, especially in genomics, is wrong. Not so, the report sai

A new study confirms reports of membrane-bound RNA molecules and points to their role in neutrophil migration.

This year’s Breakthrough Prizes honor advances in CAR T cancer therapies, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson’s disease.