In a new study, researchers showed for the first time that—just as the brain remembers people, places, smells, and so on—it also stores what they call “memory traces” of the body’s past infections. Reactivating the same brain cells that encode this information is enough to summon the peripheral immune system to defend at-risk tissues.

Researchers studied how the social cost of carbon estimates would change if studies included the most recent science on temperature-related deaths tied to climate change. According to a new study, substantially curtailing emissions today could prevent tens of millions of premature deaths over the course of the 21st century.

Plants are the original carbon capture factories—and a new research program aims to make them better ones by using gene editing.

The UK has become the first country to approve a therapy based on Crispr gene editing, with the regulator authorizing a treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.

New A.I. technology can generate blueprints for microscopic biological mechanisms that can edit DNA, pointing to a future where science can battle diseases faster and better.

Traditional crop breeding can be time-consuming and laborious. Brad Ringeisen, the executive director of the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at the University of California (Berkeley and San Francisco), believes that gene editing using tools like Crispr-Cas9 is the most impactful way of ensuring that crops can withstand disasters.