A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

In late 2021, Amber Salzman interviewed for a job that she had no intention of taking. A relatively new start-up company, called Epicrispr Biotechnologies, was looking for a chief executive, and it ...

A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases, helping researchers zero ...

The 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for their work leading to curative genetic ...

Genome editing lets scientists rewrite DNA, the instruction manual inside every living cell, with a precision that was unthinkable a generation ago. Technologies such as CRISPR have made this almost ...

For more than 20 years, scientists treated ghrelin as the body’s master hunger switch. A new look at snake genomes suggests ...

Soil bacteria make cocktails of molecules that synergistically inhibit the growth of microbial pathogens — suggesting a ...