Scientists are trying to revolutionize potatoes and, in the process, cure the tubers’ depression, the result of…
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has stripped James Watson, the 90-year-old Nobel Prize-winning scientist…
A British geneticist is worried that He Jiankui—the Chinese scientist responsible for the birth of genetically modified…
Surely, someone out there has cooked up a shrimp fra diavolo and thought, “mamma mia, this would be much easier if…
In the not-too-distant future, it will be possible to get a complete readout of a person’s genetics with ease, even…
Gene therapies are very much at their preliminary stages of development, so it would make sense to keep tabs on…
The current whereabouts of He Jiankui—the scientist who claims to have engineered the world’s first genetically…
Speaking at a genetics conference in Hong Kong earlier today, embattled Chinese scientist He Jiankui said he was…
You probably learned two things about mitochondria in high school biology. First, they’re the powerhouses of the cell.…
Scientists who study Drosophila, the humble fruit fly, like to have some fun when naming newly identified genes and…
Genetic testing has helped plenty of people gain insight into their ancestry, and some services even help users find…
A group of scientists believe they’ve uncovered at least some of the genetic risk factors that can contribute to a…
The first wave of routine genetics testing has already helped millions of people learn about their hereditary risk for…
An international consortium involving over 50 institutions has announced an ambitious project to assemble high-quality…
An appeals court has upheld a 2017 decision recognizing scientists from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT as the…
The opium poppy is famous for its ability to produce painkilling molecules. Now, by sequencing its genome, a team of…
A new study of dogs published this week in Science offers a tantalizing glimpse of how life-changing the gene-editing…
There’s evidence of a connection between cannabis use and schizophrenia, but it’s unclear whether the drug leads to…
Scientists and biotechnologists have heralded the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system as revolutionary way to edit DNA,…
The UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics says it’s acceptable to genetically engineer human embryos, so long as the…
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