GEN – Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

An open letter, In Support of Mandatory Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening and Recordkeeping, published late on the evening of June 3, 2026, and signed by life sciences researchers, technologists, national security experts and former White House officials, is calling for mandatory screening of synthetic nucleic acids. This effort is significant because it highlights...

The injectable form of the polio vaccine has proven effective at preventing illness but it does not block the transmission of the virus as well as the oral version of the vaccine. That is because the virus is usually transmitted through contaminated food or water and is first exposed to the GI tract, where the oral vaccine induces a mucosal immune response. To date, several c...

Lonza and Stipple Bio signed a multi-target licensing agreement to support the development of next-generation precision oncology ADC therapies.

Officials at Stipple Bio say the company is leveraging its Pointillist Platform to identify tumor-specific cell surface epitopes, which can enable the development of high therapeutic index medicines designed to avoid on-target/...

Hookworms, intestinal parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people in under-resourced tropical regions around the globe, have evolved to survive inside the human gut for years, secreting molecules that enable co-existence with their hosts. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have harnessed that biological mechanism for potential h...

Drug collaborations don’t always work out as planned. Sometimes they work out better.

When Incyte agreed last year to partner with artificial intelligence (AI) platform developer Ge...