New A.I. technology can generate blueprints for microscopic biological mechanisms that can edit DNA, pointing to a future where science can battle diseases faster and better.

Fresh from solving the protein structure challenge, Google’s deep-learning outfit is moving on to the human genome.

Phages—tiny entities that infect bacteria—were discovered over 100 years ago but were largely abandoned as therapies. Now they’re making a comeback.

Editing the genomes of our gut bacteria will “create a whole new field of biology” in the coming decades, a Nobel prize-winning geneticist has said at the opening of a...

Katie Pope Kopp went through round after round of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to treat her non-Hodgkin lymphoma. But nothing could beat it. “I went back to get...

A toddler girl is flourishing after receiving treatment for a rare genetic disease. In a first for this disease, she received that treatment before she was even born.

In its latest catalogue of health conditions, the World Health Organization almost equated old age with disease. Then it backed off.

Materials known as metal-organic frameworks hold promise for advances in healthcare, energy and other areas, researchers say.

CRISPR is changing the world—but it can do more.

This common knee injury typically requires reconstruction surgery, but a new type of treatment that harnesses biologics is changing that.