Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Trump Holds Off on Endorsing in Texas Senate Race: ‘I Like Them Both’ National Guardsmen Aren’t Cops Our pal Andrew Stuttaford tweeted a story about a CRISPR genetic engineering experiment from the ...

Because of existing UN conventions and protocols, according to environmental law experts, a moratorium would have limited practical impact. For that reason, this debate feels like an era-defining ...

Developments in genetics are confronting mankind with unprecedented human and moral problems. In order to solve these problems, ethicians and scientists must pool their expertise. This paper is ...

Forecasts in biotech market indicate that by 2030, gene therapy will become more accessible, potentially generating hundreds ...

WASHINGTON — A Chinese scientist’s claim to have created the first genetically edited babies has evoked widespread condemnation from the scientific community. “This is far too premature,” one American ...

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is?

As Americans consider the possible uses of genetic engineering in animals, their reactions are neither uniformly accepting nor resistant; instead, public reactions vary depending on the mechanism and ...

Modified CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing scissors are enabling researchers to make alterations to the genetic material of single-cell organisms that are indistinguishable from natural mutations. This method ...