China's Latest Cloned-Monkey Experiment Is an Ethical Mess
Chinese researchers have cloned five gene-edited monkeys with a host of genetic disease symptoms, according to two…
Let's Make Tomatoes Spicy With Genetic Engineering, Scientists Proclaim
Surely, someone out there has cooked up a shrimp fra diavolo and thought, “mamma mia, this would be much easier if…
Appeals Court Upholds CRISPR Patent, Potentially Ending Bitter Dispute
An appeals court has upheld a 2017 decision recognizing scientists from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT as the…
Much-Hyped DNA Editing Study Under Fire
Science’s next space race isn’t in the stars, but in your DNA. People around the world are working to use the latest…
How Scientifically Plausible Is the ‘Simian Flu’ in Planet of the Apes?
The Planet of the Apes prequels did much to explain how humans lost their status as the dominant species on the…
The CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool is Finally Being Used on Humans
A team of scientists in China has become the first to treat a human patient with the groundbreaking CRISPR-Cas9…
Monsanto Just Got Access to the World’s Most Powerful Gene-Editing Tool
Agriculture company Monsanto has acquired a non-exclusive global licensing agreement from MIT’s Broad Institute and…
CRISPR Just Got One Step Closer to Editing Human Genes With Ease
Leveraging the pre-existing power of CRISPR, a team of researchers has made an important adjustment to the…
Why the US Government Says It Doesn’t Need to Regulate This Mutant Mushroom
A mushroom that’s resistant to browning has become the first CRISPR-edited food to get green lit by the US government.…
Chinese Scientists Genetically Modify Human Embryos—Again
Just one year after scientists in China made history by modifying the DNA of human embryos, a second team of Chinese…
HIV Genes Successfully Edited Out of Immune Cells
Researchers from Temple University have used the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool to clear out the entire HIV-1 genome…
It Should Be Legal To Hack Your DNA
A group of geneticists has called for a moratorium on research into modifying heritable human DNA — a practice that…