It's not often a famous composer helps solve a 200-year-old mystery, but DNA from Beethoven's hair might actually do that.

Recent IVG breakthroughs bring gene-edited human embryos closer, with CRISPR-Cas9 making heritable gene editing a reality ...

So she decided to do something about it, by trimming the shirt in half with a pair of scissors, just below the arms, and continuing to wear her sweater over the top to conceal the change.

Step 3: CRISPR — The Magic Scissors Now comes the fun part: gene editing. Scientists used a tool called CRISPR. Think of CRISPR as a pair of tiny molecular scissors with a GPS tracker.

A new genomic study has uncovered long-lost genetic diversity in mammoth lineages spanning over a million years, providing new insights into the evolutionary history of these animals. A new ...

“I was told that they would need to reopen me to investigate the problem. I overheard a nurse saying that a pair of scissors had been left inside me. They suspected that it had been forgotten during ...

Three Dire Wolf pups, a species made famous by the Game of Thrones series, were born using a gene editing technique carried out by the startup Colossal Biosciences. Find out how this happened ...

If CRISPR is like scissors that cut DNA, and base editors are like using ... Prof Liu and his team have already pursued with prime editing: cystic fibrosis, a common genetic disease usually caused by ...

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