Elon Musk is set to make an announcement about Neuralink, a company designing brain-computer interface technology,…

One way to accelerate the development of a covid-19 vaccine is to conduct early testing of promising candidates on…

A scathing opinion piece in the BMJ is accusing the World Health Organization of conducting a pilot program in…

By prodding a tiny brain region linked to consciousness, scientists caused anesthetized monkeys to suddenly become…

Disgraced Chinese scientist He Jiankui has been sentenced to three years in jail for creating the world’s first…

Scientists in China created piglets whose organs contained some monkey cells. The piglets all died within a week,…

China has been using an equation to produce fake organ donation data, according to researchers who used a forensic…

An alarming study that added fuel to the fire over a recent controversial genetic experiment in China has now been…

No news this week could possibly compare to the “hot dog salad” abomination created by a certain Gizmodo colleague,…

The partially U.S. government-funded National Academy of Sciences removed a webpage with a video describing gene…

Rapid progress in research involving miniature human brains grown in a dish has led to a host of ethical concerns,…

An experimental trial to reduce the number of mosquitoes in a Brazilian town by releasing genetically modified…

An international collaboration is claiming to have created hybridized human-monkey embryos in China. Disturbingly,…

The remarkable ability of plants to respond to their environment has led some scientists to believe it’s a sign of…

New research shows that the genetic tweak employed by disgraced Chinese scientist He Jiankui to make babies immune…

A terminally ill patient who opted for assisted death has undergone cryonic preservation at the Alcor Life Extension…

A pair of genetic experts are claiming that the controversial human gene-editing experiment conducted by Chinese…

A Stanford investigation has cleared three prominent faculty members of helping with a controversial gene-editing…

Researchers from Yale have developed a system capable of restoring some functionality to the brains of decapitated…

A suite of genetic tests used to predict a person’s response to specific medications is being marketed illegally by…