When EPA begins a major review of air pollution standards this week, a researcher who has received funding from an industry group opposed to the rules will be leading the agency’s panel. When EPA ...

The development of gene editing tools, which enable the specific targeting and correction of mutations, hold the promise of allowing us to correct those mutations that cause genetic diseases. However, ...

The University of Arizona women's basketball team will play against No. 20 West Virginia University on Saturday, Feb. 7 in Morgantown, West Virginia at noon. The Wildcats look to continue their ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Genome editing 2 is a powerful new tool for making precise additions, deletions, and ...

Cue the music! We invite you to our third "She Blinded Me with Science" Women in Science Wikipdia Edit-a-thon III. As was the case for the last two edit-a-thons, you can participate both in-person at ...

The CRISPR gene-editing system is a powerful tool that could revolutionize medicine and other sciences, but unfortunately it has a tendency to make edits to the wrong sections of DNA. Now, researchers ...

Researchers have successfully develop single-atom editing technology that maximizes drug efficacy. In pioneering drug development, the new technology that enables the easy and rapid editing of key ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club about Upgrade by Blake Crouch. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, listen to our interview with the author, join our online community space, or send a ...

Hundreds of scientists, doctors, bioethicists, patients, and others started gathering in London Monday for the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing. The summit this week will debate and ...

The research team, led by scientists including Ryo Hashizume, worked with skin cells and induced pluripotent stem cells derived from people with Down syndrome. Rather than altering individual genes, ...