As the dish of steamed chicken feet clattered onto the table, an impish toddler drummed with her chop sticks. Nobody in the noisy restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown gave a second glance at the man ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feng Zhang, PhD, institute member at the Broad Institute and HHMI Investigator, has an uncanny ability to be in the middle of (or on the leading edge of) the hottest topics in biological research. The ...

One of the world's top gene-editing researchers told Insider about his firm's ambition of solving one of the field's thorniest problems. The CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang spoke with Insider about Aera ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) named Feng Zhang the 2014 recipient of its Alan T. Waterman Award. This award is NSF's highest honor that annually recognizes an outstanding researcher under the ...

On December 18, "Art for Life — The Exhibition of Artworks by Members of the China Democratic League at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Like every other 12-year-old who saw the movie Jurassic Park, Feng Zhang was awestruck by the dinosaurs. He was even more amazed by the power of molecular biology. Now, two decades later, Zhang has ...

In early May, during a meeting on genome engineering at the Broad Institute, a visiting researcher named Eugene Koonin mentioned that some obscure bacteria might have an unrecognized talent: to cut ...

A new startup co-founded by CRISPR innovator Feng Zhang, a former executive at Grail and Illumina, and others has raised $57 million to develop a defanged form of gene editing that doesn’t cut the DNA ...