Aera Therapeutics is launching with $193 million to develop a new nanoparticle technology to deliver genetic medicines to hard-to-reach parts of the body. Months before Feng Zhang met with a trio of ...

To build a new biotechnology startup, Alex Aravanis looked to the past. The former Illumina and Grail executive has spent decades examining the human genome, starting with his postdoctoral studies at ...

A longer version of this story previously appeared on the website Statnews.com. As the dish of steamed chicken feet clattered onto the table, an impish toddler drummed with her chopsticks. Nobody in ...

Using genetic engineering for personal enhancement is a controversial topic — not to mention, presently, a practical impossibility. But when a group of health care experts gathered on Tuesday to hear ...

Possibly the most famous Boston-area scientist you've never heard of is named Feng Zhang. By any measure — papers, prizes, impact — Zhang is a science superstar, one of the most inventive life ...

A Broad Institute researcher who is one of the pioneers of the CRISPR gene editing technique is speaking out, upon news that a scientist in China claims to have created the world's first ...

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Akin Akinc was scouring his email spam box last summer, looking for a missing message, when he stumbled across an unexpected email from a quite recognizable name: Feng Zhang. Zhang, one of the leading ...

CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang recently achieved a big breakthrough in the delivery of CRISPR gene editing therapies. Zhang used the Cas13 enzyme, whereas most CRISPR therapies in development use Cas9.

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In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Dr. Feng Zhang joins us to discuss China-North Korea relations in light of the growing Russia-North Korea relationship and deployment of North Korean troops ...