Using bioinformatics, two teams of scientists identified inhibitory proteins for Cas9’s relative.

The genetically engineered probiotic, already in clinical trials, may ease patients’ strict dietary regimes.

Under one name the species is used in food fermentation, and under the other it is a drug-resistant cause of yeast infections.

The new technique uses an enzyme found in vertebrate immune systems to attach nucleotides to a growing strand.  

Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges that allege the company’s promise to revolutionize blood testing swindled investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and put patients in danger.

Determining which products of advanced biotechnology are deserving of legal protections is essential to our own social architecture.

In an ongoing legal battle, the University of California, Berkeley has challenged the Broad Institute’s patent claims on the gene editing technology.

SHERLOCK and DETECTR can identify particular nucleic acid sequences, while CAMERA records events in human and bacterial cells.