As genome editing therapies move through clinical trials to regulatory approval, scientists continue the quest for the holy ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there's a whole lot of DNA beyond genes that we are just starting to understand.

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

Scientists have, for the first time, used an extremely precise genome editing technique called base editing to study gene ...

The report – ‘Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing: Public Attitudes in Europe’, commissioned by the charity Progress Educational Trust (PET), supported by ESHRE and conducted by Ipso, was ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Collins, F. S. 2011. Reengineering translational science: The time is right. Science ...

It is still not fully understood how, despite having the same set of genes, cells turn into neurons, bones, skin, heart, or roughly 200 other kinds of cells, and then exhibit stable cellular behavior ...