A baby girl desperately needed heart surgery and it could not wait....
Biotech
The FDA’s first ever approval of Kymriah, a CAR-T drug for acute childhood leukaemia, was a milestone for immuno-oncology and has justifiably hit the headlines. But it is far...
Today we are able to use CRISPR to disable target genes and to add new stretches of DNA. One of the impressive aspects of Doudna’s book is her confidence...
I met the person who has more influence over the future than anybody else.
Technology has advanced so rapidly that it is now reasonable to discuss editing the DNA of germ-line cells, thus determining the physical fate of future generations.
I have just paid a visit to Horizon's gleaming new building on the Cambridge Research Park, and I think I know why investors have finally seen the light.
When I was young towns and cities had industrial estates. These became business parks. Now any self-respecting city has a science park.
With genetic engineering advancing at such a pace it is the future applications that are most exciting.
The Americans love these winged adventurers, so imagine their horror when they heard that GM crops were destroying them.
The American science writer Ray Kurzweil believes that the human species will soon be radically transformed.