Researchers studied how the social cost of carbon estimates would change if studies included the most recent science on temperature-related deaths tied to climate change. According to a new study, substantially curtailing emissions today could prevent tens of millions of premature deaths over the course of the 21st century.

In a new study, researchers showed for the first time that—just as the brain remembers people, places, smells, and so on—it also stores what they call “memory traces” of the body’s past infections. Reactivating the same brain cells that encode this information is enough to summon the peripheral immune system to defend at-risk tissues.

Plants are the original carbon capture factories—and a new research program aims to make them better ones by using gene editing.

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.

Plants bred or engineered to be short can stand up better to windstorms. They could also boost yields and benefit the environment.

Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna says using gene-editing technology to modify human microbiomes, potentially with the help of artificial intelligence, could eliminate some chronic diseases.

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.

Researchers are closing in on the long-sought goal of creating high-yielding hybrid crops that can be propagated indefinitely, without sex.

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