When the Golden State Killer, who committed at least 12 murders, 50 rapes and 100 burglaries in California from 1974 to 1986, was finally caught in April, law enforcement and forensics experts celebrated. Naval veteran Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested after DNA, ...

For the first time, a team of international scientists have successfully used a specific technology to edit human DNA, to prevent disease. Their study, published in Nature, showed that, through the use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, a gene mutation causing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) could ...