The UK has become the first country to approve a therapy based on Crispr gene editing, with the regulator authorizing a treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.

The Food and Drug Administration took a crucial step towards a historic decision - the approval of the first medical therapy that uses gene-editing to treat a disease.

The world-famous biochemist is ready to tackle everything from immune disorders and mental illness to climate change—all by altering microbes in the digestive tract.

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

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a 5-year, $140 million project to probe the health effects of DNA changes acquired by only some tissues and organs.

We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation — the limits of which aren’t even clear yet.

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...

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.

Medieval DNA suggests immune gene helped protect against deadly pathogen, but may cause autoimmune problems today.