eGenesis hopes to solve the problem of a critical shortage of suitable transplant organs by making it safe to use pig organs in human recipients. eGenesis…
Expanding the understanding of BRCA1 mutations in cancer Many women with a family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer are undergoing testing for mutations…
A disease called citrus greening has devastated Florida’s citrus industry since its discovery in 2005. Agriculture officials are hoping they can stop it before…
Gilead Sciences is pursuing a new avenue toward hepatitis B treatment, collaborating on gene therapies aimed at eliminating viral infections in vivo by using…
Scientists have now developed an assay that concurrently profiles both the epigenome and transcriptome of each of thousands of single cells. The epigenome and…
Gene therapy company 4D Molecular Therapeutics has raised $90 million in venture capital funds, with plans to advance its vector platform and pipeline of…
Urovant Sciences is no longer a one-trick pony, picking up the global rights to a gene therapy from Ion Channel Innovations. The treatment, which has been…
Scientists have pinpointed a key gene that controls segmentation during spider development, which reveals a further similarity to the control of segmentation in…