Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...

It sounds like something out of science fiction - but scientists say it’s edging closer to reality. A biotech startup based ...

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

Scottish scientists have engineered swine that are resistant to classical swine fever, a highly contagious disease that has killed countless pigs. In trials, the gene-edited animals stayed healthy ...

Classical swine fever reduces productivity and harms animal welfare, but pigs have now been genetically edited to make them ...