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CRISPR reagents injected into the amniotic fluid inactivated a gene in the fetuses that would normally cause lung disease and kill the mice a few hours after birth.

In a controversial first, Princeton University bans relationships between faculty and grad students campus-wide.

Mouse fathers whose sperm lacks the gene Kdm6a pass down altered methylation patterns to male offspring, along with a better chance of developing tumors and dying.

The fabella disappeared from our lineage millions of years ago, but over the last century, its presence in people’s knees has become more common.

The tool weighs millions of variants to determine how susceptible a person is to becoming obese.

A new study indicates that the modified CRISPR-Cas9 technology will need to be further refined before it can safely be used for research and therapeutic applications.

Fungal researcher Christina Cuomo discusses the spread of infections plaguing hospitals across the world.

Researchers develop a system to deliver synthetic blood to isolated brains hours after death.

Researchers report they’ve found a way to restore immune function in infants with one form of “bubble boy disease.”

Researchers want to avoid a situation from last week in which a professor, banned from his university for substantiated sexual misconduct claims, showed up at the Society for American Archaeology conference.

One person with multiple myeloma and one with sarcoma are the first so far to receive the genetically engineered T cells in the study.

For primates, males’ fancier ornaments are linked with smaller testes, according to a new comparative study.