At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...

Primerdesign releases RapidBead Pro, a fast magnetic bead kit delivering high-quality DNA/RNA extraction across diverse ...

Biosensing technology developed by engineers has made it possible to create gene test strips that rival conventional lab-based tests in quality. When the pandemic started, people who felt unwell had ...

We’ve seen gene-editing in works of fiction make wonders for humans and the environment, from creating “healing factors” in humans, to transforming agriculture for greater sustainability. Genetic ...

U.K.-based Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) opened a new laboratory in Stevenage which has been specifically designed and equipped to allow cell and gene therapy developers to monitor and ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

One autumn day in 2020 Patrick Doherty was walking his dog up a steep mountain in County Donegal, Ireland, when he noticed he was, unusually for him, running out of breath. The eventual diagnosis was ...

Alyssa, 13, was the first patient to receive a base-edited cell therapy to treat her leukemia in May 2022.Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children A 13-year-old girl was the world's first patient to ...