Early in the morning a few days before Christmas, I was sitting in the living room of my mom’s New Zealand apartment,…

A powerful and controversial new genetic engineering technology called a gene drive offers the potential to…

For the native species of New Zealand, European settlement was particularly cruel. The country has no endemic land…

For more than half a century, scientists have dreamed of harnessing an odd quirk of nature— “selfish genes,” which…

The stoat—a small, adorable, weasel-like mammal—is the one of the largest ecological threats in New Zealand. It’s a…

That the kiwi bird still exists at all is something of a marvel. Its native New Zealand has no endemic land…

Malaria is among the world’s deadliest diseases. It killed King Tut and Genghis Khan, along with as many as half of…

This week, researchers at UCSF announced they’d uncovered a key to making their genetically-engineered creations a…

The gene drive is quickly becoming one of the most controversial technologies of our time. Its possibilities are at…

Of all the potentially apocalyptic technologies scientists have come up with in recent years, the gene drive is…