Background The role of physical activity in the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is debated. It is also unclear whether the association differs in people at high genetic risk of ALS.

The prior three articles in this series — covering the theatrical premiere, the broadcast premiere, and Episode 1's deep physics dive — mapped The Calamity's power systems onto quantum decoherence, ...

Indian scientists at ICAR have decoded the complete, gap-free genome of arhar dal, also called tur dal or pigeonpea, for the ...

Politics editor Nick Baumann, deputy politics editor Jen Liberto and political enterprise editor Pat Caldwell sent out the following at the Washington Post: We’re in a political moment made for The ...

Zilong Qiu is now being investigated by his university more than a year after his patient likely died from his team's experimental gene-editing therapy. Reading time 4 minutes Last year, a ...

Imagine being able to edit disease out of a person’s DNA. That future might be closer than you think. Researchers at UH’s John A. Burn School of Medicine are developing gene-editing tools with ...

Gene editing is like a molecular meet cute. When protein “scissors” dock onto the intended gene, even a tiny slip—no more than the width of a hydrogen atom—can ruin the connection, and the protein may ...

A 6-year-old Chinese girl died last year after receiving an experimental gene therapy to correct a non-life-threatening condition, according to an investigation by Science and Retraction Watch. The ...

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A couple of decades after the discovery of systems that could selectively target DNA, we’re starting to see the first therapies based on gene editing. One challenge these developments have faced is ...

Heidi Ledford reports for Nature from Seattle, Washington. Scientists have exploited a peculiar CRISPR enzyme so that it fights cancer by shredding the DNA in cancer cells, causing them to ...