Eli Lilly is continuing a run of dealmaking to strengthen its genetic medicine offering by penning a pact with gene editing company Seamless Therapeutics. This morning’s deal with Seamless centers on ...

What if a cup of coffee could help treat cancer? Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Institute of Biosciences and Technology believe it's possible. By combining caffeine with the use of CRISPR—a ...

In 2018, a nervous-looking He Jiankui took the stage at a scientific conference in Hong Kong. A hush settled over the packed auditorium as the soft-spoken Chinese scientist adjusted his microphone and ...

Nearly a year after the shocking deaths of Hollywood icon Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, at their compound in Santa Fe, N.M., the couple’s 53-acre estate is coming on the market for $6.25 ...

Here’s how extinct DNA could help us in the present—and the future. Yeah, we know—it’s not a dire wolf. In early 2025, the Texas biotech company Colossal Biosciences landed with a splash on the cover ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A patient in a late-stage gene editing trial for a rare heart condition died from fatal liver complications after receiving an ...

I hate to break this to you, but every child is a genetic experiment – and nature doesn’t care if things go wrong. Our genomes are awful messes created by conflicting evolutionary forces, and every ...

This year marked a pivotal moment in the quest to treat Huntington’s disease, a rare but devastating form of dementia. Scientists found that an experimental gene therapy slowed the condition’s ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

There is no cure for the rare disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), but researchers from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and the UMass Chan Medical School have achieved ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. The Food and Drug Administration this week granted approval to a new gene ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – something previously believed to be the result of several mutations working ...