When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in 2020, the mRNA vaccines came to the rescue of many people—but in the ...

UConn Health and Connecticut Children's have made history by dosing the first patient in a clinical trial using gene editing to treat glycogen storage ...

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Rare genetic diseases are challenging for patients and their families—made all the more overwhelming because symptoms tend to ...

KJ Muldoon recently made history by becoming the first patient to receive a personalized CRISPR gene therapy, designed specifically for the genetic mutations causing his rare metabolic disease. | KJ ...

The Byers Award recognizes outstanding research by faculty members in the middle of their careers. Martin Kampman’s honorary ...

Personalized CRISPR cures for children born with rare genetic diseases are now a step closer to being more widely available.

Supported by $20 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the center focuses on treating rare genetic diseases in children, starting with a group of eight kids who will enroll in a clinical ...

It’s time to step up the opposition to designer babies, says Marcy Darnovsky of the Center for Genetics and Society ...

Nobel laureate Paul M. Romer, one of the most influential economists of this century, will join Boston College as the Seidner University Professor in the Carroll School of Management, and launch its ...

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