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Gene editing has delivered remarkable results against sickle cell disease. Now researchers are working to make these ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

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In late 2021, Amber Salzman interviewed for a job that she had no intention of taking. A relatively new start-up company, called Epicrispr Biotechnologies, was looking for a chief executive, and it ...

A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases, helping researchers zero ...

For more than 20 years, scientists treated ghrelin as the body’s master hunger switch. A new look at snake genomes suggests ...