A version of this Priestley Medal address will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2026 meeting ...

CRISPR Therapeutics’ fourth quarter was relatively disappointing. As a biotech start-up still in its infancy though, these early quarterly numbers don’t mean much. The foreseeable future looks bright ...

Chipping around elevated greens can be tricky, often leading to chunky shots that miss the mark and add unnecessary strokes. The key is having a clear blueprint — one that helps you ask the right ...

In May 2025, the world celebrated the success of KJ, an infant who was treated with the world’s first personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy. KJ was born with severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 ...

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing ...

Scientists are developing a new CRISPR-based system that uses caffeine to precisely control gene activity inside cells. By turning gene editing on and off with familiar compounds, the method points ...

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 ...

Last year’s federal agency layoffs, grant discontinuations, and university funding cuts led to numerous warnings of the disastrous impact on U.S. science research. Gretchen Goldman, PhD, from the ...

Oceanic ecosystems are increasingly threatened by global warming, which causes coral bleaching, species migration and, through the loss of habitats and biodiversity, food web disruptions on major ...