By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

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The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study ...

A startup’s ads for controversial embryo tests hit the New York City subway. One day this fall, I watched an electronic sign outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan switch ...

Juanita Francisco’s son Eddie recalls that when he was 13 years old, the antibiotics he was given for an infection caused an allergic reaction in the form of severe asthma attacks. So as not to ...

CRISPR gives us the power to rewrite DNA, while AI accelerates that power beyond human control. Together, they’ve launched a genetic arms race that could redefine life—or erase it entirely. ‘Americans ...

Two Chinese nationals are facing federal charges of conspiracy to smuggle goods into the U.S., and a third is charged with false statements, all related to an investigation of biological materials ...

The grantmaking organization Open Philanthropy has awarded funding for a University of California San Diego technology designed to stop the spread of malaria. The $500,000 grant to School of ...

Xenotransplantation holds promise to eliminate the shortage of organs intended for humans in need. Pigs constitute the most suitable organ xenograft donor due to the fact that their organ anatomy ...

Several round plastic containers rest on a surface, and each contains a small, striped frog. Juvenile Australian southern corroboree frogs at the University of Melbourne laboratories Credit: Tiffany ...

MIT and Harvard scientists have designed an advanced type of immune cell called a CAR-NK cell that can destroy cancer while avoiding attack from the body’s own immune defenses. This innovation could ...