Biotech

New discoveries on ancient loops in DNA offer clues into gene regulation

A heavy skew toward white people makes precision medicine imprecise

Nanoscale devices convert near-infrared light into visible, green light. When injected into the eyes, they enabled mice to see in the infrared

Engineered microorganisms churn out THC, CBD and rarer, less-understood cannabis cousins

Plasma from young people offers “no proven clinical benefit” as a treatment against aging or Alzheimer’s disease, the agency says

When researchers fed mosquitoes a drug used to treat people for obesity, the insects were less interested in hunting for their next human meal ticket. Karen Hopkin reports.

Nick Sireau’s quest to give his sons weed killer could help thousands struggling with rare genetic conditions

The Pentagon is funding brain-implant research aimed at creating neurally “enhanced” soldiers

A tortoise and a puffer fish inspire technology to overcome the multibillion-dollar nonadherence problem

Anxiety disorders, addiction, acute pain and stroke rehabilitation are just a few of the areas where VR therapy is already in use

The assays don't always yield results, but the information they offer can, at times, alter the course of treatment or prevention

Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that a controversial genetic engineering technology works, with caveats, in mammals